Photo
by Dr M Lueth ©.
*1: Basic soil, spoil
heaps of mine, Gear near Perranporth, Feb. 1961, JAP
(BBSUK) (Paton 1962: 359, 1969a:
696).
*2: NW. of Sticker,
1962, JAP (BBSUK) (Paton 1969a: 696). [Listed
in the 1913 CC, but
no record was traced by Paton 1969a:
696].
Habitat notes from C&S are as follows. On
mosses on vertical granite rock, facing south in old quarry;
unshaded (c.per. + few foliar gemmae). Thin acidic soil
exposed above granitic boulder on bank. With other low
bryophytes on unshaded, part-vegetated copper mine spoil, e.g.
on pathways, near top of sea-cliffs and thin soil over masonry
of ruined mine building (associates Archidium
alternifolium, Cephaloziella
stellulifera, Ceratodon purpureus,
Solenostoma
gracillimum, Scapania compacta). In
open areas among heath vegetation in china-clay spoil beside
pit. Steep side of granitic rock in old 'hedge'. Thin soil on
top of 'hedges' and on a stone wall (with Diplophyllum albicans,
Diphyscium
foliosum, Lophozia
sudetica, Scapania
compacta). With Campylopus introflexus
on soil over gravel of unshaded, disused railway track (on
bridge). With other low bryophytes on thin compressed soil on
exposed soil of grassy slopes, near paths and on old tracks on
cliff tops and slope above coast, and on thin soil over slaty
rocks on sea-cliff (with Archidium
alternifolium, Bryum kunzei, Campylopus
introflexus, Cephaloziella
divaricata, Cephaloziella
stellulifera, Fossombronia
'husnotii', Fossombronia maritima,
Grimmia lisae, Hypnum cupressiforme
var. lacunosum,
Riccia crozalsii,
Riccia sorocarpa,
Scleropodium
touretii, Tortula
wilsonii, Trichostomum
brachydontium; Cladonia sp., Aphanes sp.). On bare
patches of sandy soil in slight hollow in sparsely vegetated
area of dune-grassland, close to old mine-spoil and patchy Calluna.
Normally with foliar gemmae. Cper: 1, 2, 10, 11.
Three records c.fr.: immature 1, 10; dehiscing
1.
