''Camptochaete'' is a genus of
moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular plant, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic phylum, division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryo ...
es found in
Australasia
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. The genus was described in 1870 by
Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt (1835–1885). The name, from
Greek
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Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
''kamptos'', meaning bent, altered, and ''chaite'', meaning hair, bristle, likely refers to the curved
seta
In biology, setae (; seta ; ) are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms.
Animal setae
Protostomes
Depending partly on their form and function, protostome setae may be called macrotrichia, chaetae, ...
.
Species include:
* ''
Camptochaete aciphylla''
Dixon & Sainsbury
* ''
Camptochaete angustata''
(Mitt.) Reichardt
* ''
Camptochaete arbuscula''
(Sm.) Reichardt
* ''
Camptochaete curvata''
Tangney
* ''
Camptochaete deflexa''
(Wilson) A.Jaeger
* ''
Camptochaete excavata''
(Taylor) A.Jaeger
* ''
Camptochaete leichhardtii''
(Hampe) Broth.
* ''
Camptochaete monolina''
Meagher & Cairns
* ''
Camptochaete pulvinata''
(Hook.f. & Wilson) A.Jaeger
* ''
Camptochaete subporotrichoides''
(Broth. & Geh.) Broth. (Besch.)
References
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Lembophyllaceae
Plants described in 1870
Moss genera