*2: Marshy ground
beside Dozmary Pool, Bodmin Moor, 1966, JAP
(BBSUK) (Crundwell 1969: 886, Paton 1969a:
733; also listed without details by Lewis & Smith 1978:
24).
Not generally recognised in Britain until the
revision by Lewis & Smith (1978).
Grows as scattered stems with other low mosses,
forming mall patches or tiny lawns of low stems when more
plentiful. Habitat notes from Cornwall are as follows. On damp
humic soil with sparse grasses and herbs on shore of lake
(with Pohlia
drummondii, Pseudephemerum
nitidum). On firm clay exposed in inundation zone beside
reservoir (near Bryum
dichotomum,
Dicranella rufescens, Pohlia annotina). On
soil of bank of stream among Juncus. Unshaded at
all sites.
Axillary bulbils always present. Not seen c.fr.
(sporophytes are very rare in Britain according
to M.J. Wigginton in Hill et al. 1994:
66).
