*1: On small rather
bare sandy patches in very short turf of dune grassland, Gear
Sands, SW75, 1995, DTH 95-86 (BBSUK, DTH)
(Blockeel 1996: 45).
Two sites in Cornwall. At Gear Sands, where locally
plentiful and extending over ca 50 m, on partly
bare sandy patches occurring as gaps in very short dune
grassland (NVC type closest to CG1e, with damp, low turf of
herbs, grasses and mosses; patches of Calluna vulgaris are
present nearby). This area probably receives slight flushing
from old copper-mine spoil upslope. D. inclinatum often
forms pure, small, low patches in these partly bare, base-rich
areas, where its low-growing associates include Cephaloziella spp., Ditrichum gracile, Fissidens dubius, Leiocolea turbinata
and Southbya
tophacea. At Pool found as ca 7 small patches all
within 0.5 m radius, on soil among small granitic rocks on
open disturbed ground near disused mine, with sparse low
grasses (mainly Agrostis capillaris)
and herbs.
Frequently c.fr. at Gear Sands but only seen
non-fertile at Pool (secure identification can only be based
on plants with mature spores): capsules immature 4,
12.
