Campylopus subulatus Schimp. var.. schimperi (Milde) Husn., Muscol. Gall. 43. 1884. Campylopus subulatus ssp. schimperi (Milde) Dix., Stud. Handb. Brit. Mosses 91. 1896. Campylopus alpigena Broth., Akad. Wiss. Wien, Sitzungsber., Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. Abt. 1, 133: 562. 1924. Type. China: Yunnan, Zhong-dian Co., Handel-Mazzetti 4751 (holotype H). Campylopus alpigena var. lamellatus Broth., Symb. Sin. 4: 17. 1929. Type. China: Yunnan, Li-jiang Co., Handel-Mazzetti 1196 (6763) (holotype H). Campylopus handelii Broth., Symb. Sin. 4: 18. 1929. Type. China: Yunnan, Zhong-dian Co., Handel-Mazzetti 7676 (holotype H; isotype MO). Campylopus handelii var. setschwanicus Broth., Symb. Sin. 4: 18. 1929. Type. China: Sichuan, Yan-yuan (Yen-yuen) Co., Handel-Mazzetti 1515, 2641 (syntypes H, MO).

Plants small to large, 1–5(–8) cm high, green to yellowish brown, in silky, compact tufts. Stems erect or ascending, simple or sparsely branched, radiculose below; central strand present. Leaves erect, stiff, appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, 2.5–5.0 mm long, lanceolate, gradually tapered from a narrow or somewhat broad base to a short or long, subulate or subtubulose acumen; lamina extending beyond 1/3 the leaf length; margins plane, entire below, serrulate only at extreme apex; costa relatively narrow, occupying ½ –2/3 the leaf base width, short- to long-excurrent, not ending in a hylaine point, often smooth, sometimes irregularly ridged at back in the upper part, without clearly defined stereids in transverse section, dorsal cells with incrassate walls; upper cells rectangular, moderately thick-walled; basal cells lax, short-rectangular to rectangular, thin-walled, narrower at the margins; alar cells not or sometimes forming auricles, quadrate to hexagonal, not particularly inflated, hyaline or brown, often delicate. Dioicous. Setae slender, flexuose when dry, cygneous when moist, 5–10 mm long, yellowish brown; capsules erect, oblong-ellipsoidal, symmetric, not contracted below the mouth, plicate when dry.

Type. Italy: “Partschins bei Meran”, Mild 1863.

Chinese specimens examined: ANHUI: Huang Shan (Mt.), P.-J. Lin & Z.-H. Li 51 (SYS). GUANGXI: Xing-an Co., C. Gao 1757 (IFSBH), C. Gao & G.-C. Zhang 1320, 1701 (IFSBH). HUNAN: Yi-zhang Co., C. Gao & G.-C. Zhang 682 (IFSBH). JIANGXI: Lu Shan (Mt.), P.-C. Chen 191 (MO, as Campylopus handelii), C. Gao 40800 (MO, as Campylopus alpigena), L.-J. Bi 39 (IFSBH), F.-Z. Huang 5169 (IFSBH). QINGHAI: Xing-hai Co., F.-G. Lu 29 (IFSBH). SICHUAN: Ba-tang Co., S. He 31424 (MO, PE); Liang Shan (Mt.), G.-C. Zhang & T. Cao 21635, 21738 (IFSBH); Mu-li Co., C. Gao et al. 20319, 21053 (IFSBH); Nan-chuan Co., X.-Y. Hu 0047 (MO); Xichang City, C. Gao et al. 19778, 19873 (IFSBH). XIZANG: Cuo-na Co., M. Zang 1655 (KUN); Mo-tuo Co., S.-K. Chen 89 (KUN); Pa-li Co., M. Zang 672 (KUN); Ya-dong Co., S.-K. Chen 5026 (KUN). YUNNAN: Bin-chuan Co., W.-X. Xu 1 (YUKU); Da-li Co., Y.-G. Su 1369a (MO); Gong-shan Co., M.-Z. Wang 8067, 9221 (IFSBH, PE); Jing-dong Co., J.-K. Zhang 1373, 1392 (YUKU); Kunming City, W.-X. Xu 905 (YUKU); Li-jiang Co., W.-X. Xu 985 (YUKU); Wei-xi Co., M.-Z. Wang 5086(a) (IFSBH, PE).

Habitat: on soil, rocks, or bases of trees and rotten wood; Distribution: China, Japan, Russia, Europe, and North America.

Illustrations: C. Gao (ed.) 1994 (Pl. 65, figs. 10–15, as Campylopus subulatus var. schimperi).