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NZ Plants

Campylopus introflexus

Family: Leucobryaceae

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  • Branching stems

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  • Shoot with reflexed hair points (filamentous leaf tips)

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  • Hair points of young leaves

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  • Young detached shoot tip that will develop into a brood body (vegetative reproductive structure)

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  • Immature sporophytes consist of a stalk (seta) that forms a 'U' bend positioning the capsule down among the leaves.

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  • Immature sporophyte

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  • Immature capsule among the leaves at the base of a shoot.

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  • Continued elongation of the seta lifts the capsule up out of the leaves; this capsule has the remains of its calpytra cover with fine hairs at its base

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  • Elongation of the seta has oriented the capsule in an erect position

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  • Capsule with operculum lid (right) and detached calpytra cover (left)

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  • Several sporophytes at a shoot tip with capsules that have shed the operculum lid

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  • Mature capsule with peristome teeth and spores that have been released.

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Campylopus introflexus is a common terrestrial moss characterised by erect, narrow-lanceolate leaves terminating fine tips (hair points) that are spreading-to-reflexed when dry. The seta (capsule stalk) is bent or curved when dry and bears a  horizontally oriented and grooved capsule.
Found throughout New Zealand on roadside banks and open scrub and forest.
 


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