*1: Near Truro, 1860,
WC (OXF) (Paton 1969a:
755).
*2: Near Helland
Bridge, Bodmin, 1879, RVT (B) (Paton 1969a:
755).
A form with rather long-tapering, acuminate leaf
apices has been recorded several times in Cornwall (Smith
1978, 2006 described leaf apex as shortly tapering and acute
or subacute).
Grows as low lawns or mixed with other bryophytes
or low grasses and herbs. Habitats in Cornwall are as follows.
A colonist on moist compressed soil and clayey, gritty and
gravelly substrates of tracks and their edges, paths, banks,
sparsely vegetated hollows and roadside verges. Usually grows
unshaded, sometimes partly shaded. Rather local in Cornwall
but often common around old and active china clay quarries and
their works. Single records from disused railway track, edge
of track on old metalliferous mine area, patches of mainly
bare damp soil in pasture, wet heathland and on vertical
granite of low step on pathway. Widespread but very sparse in
upper part of inundation-zone beside Colliford Lake
(reservoir) occurring mainly as sparse young stems, but with a
few well-grown patches. Associates recorded include Archidium
alternifolium,
Calliergonella cuspidata, Campylopus
introflexus,
Oxyrrhynchium hians, Fossombronia
pusilla, Phaeoceros
laevis, Pleurozium
schreberi,
Racomitrium ericoides, Centunculus minimus
and varied short grasses and herbs.
Not seen c.fr.
