*1: Try Moor, N. of
Penzance, 1880, EDM
(NMW) (Paton 1969a:
703).
*2: Goss Moor, 1906,
RWS (TRU) (Paton 1969a:
703).
Mostly on peaty banks, decaying tussocks (e.g. of
Molinia caerulea
and Leucobryum
glaucum) and living and moribund sphagna in acidic mires.
Grows unshaded to partly shaded. Associates include Aulacomnium palustre,
Calypogeia fissa,
Calypogeia
muelleriana, Cephalozia connivens,
Kurzia sylvatica,
Kurzia pauciflora,
Lophozia
ventricosa, Mylia
anomala, Riccardia
latifrons, Riccardia multifida,
Sphagnum
capillifolium, Sphagnum fallax, Sphagnum papillosum;
Anagallis tenella,
Drosera
rotundifolia; occasionally Straminergon
stramineum, Campylopus pyriformis,
Dicranum bonjeanii,
Gymnocolea inflata,
Pleurozium
schreberi, rarely Jamesoniella
undulifolia. Also in an acidic flush near sphagna. At
Manor Common in
Leucobryum glaucum hummocks in short acidic grassland on
drier slopes well away from mires.
Frequently c.per. in drier sites, e.g. on peaty
banks. Seen once c.per. (9), twice c.fr. (few ripe capsules at
each of two sites: 4)
