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[111.18
Bryum
elegans Nees (syn. B. capillare var. elegans (Nees) Husn.)
– Recorded for Cornwall on basis of specimens apparently
all from the same place labelled 'Between stones of walled
bank, Lamborne, 1944, Rilstone' in BM (Paton 1969a:
738), and several specimens labelled 'Between stones of walled
bank, Perranzabuloe, W. Cornwall, 17.12.45, F.
Rilstone', that were entered into the BBS Exchange. The record
was accepted by Syed (1973: 277), Crundwell (1974: 172) and
Blockeel & Long (1998), but my re-examination of three
substantial specimens (BBSUK, NMW) in 2001
revealed that they lacked several of the important characters
of B. elegans and perhaps
represent merely an odd form of B. capillare. Hence the
rather surprising Cornish records of this calcicole of mainly
upland limestone habitats have been dismissed as unsafe if not
erroneous (Rothero 2009: 77, 2010:
76).]
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