*1: Near Morvah, 1844,
AG (PNZ) (Paton 1969a:
746).
*2: Near Trehane, W. of
Probus, 1859, ES (TRU) (Paton 1969a:
746).
Treatment of C. stellatum and C. protensum as distinct
species follows Hedenäs (2003).
Grows intermixed with other vegetation or sometimes
as lawns of erect and arching stems.
Notes on habitats in C&S are as follows.
Characteristic of damp peaty substrates on heaths on Lizard
pen., mainly where cover of phanerogams is open or patchy
(often with Bryum
pseudotriquetrum, Calliergonella
cuspidata, Fissidens
adianthoides). In open mire with Sphagnum (including S. subnitens). In small
quantity among Didymodon tophaceus at
base of Juncus
maritimus in flushed area on rocky raised beach near
sea-level. In flushes and beside small streams on open slopes
on and above sea-cliffs, sometimes forming large pure patches
(sometimes with Calliergonella
cuspidata, Cratoneuron filicinum,
Drepanocladus
aduncus). Bodmin Moor: in open mesotrophic parts of wet
mires, especially in trickling water of runnels or flushes;
associates include Calliergonella
cuspidata, Scorpidium revolvens,
also close to Erica
tetralix and Molinia
caerulea.
One record c.fr. (vc1): capsules immature
7.
