*1:Trevelloe near
Lamorna, 1864, WC (PNZ) (Paton 1969a:
748).
*2: Bodmin
Road Station, RVT, 1889
(B) (Paton 1969a: 748).
Forming mats or patches on bark or growing to form
low lawns on the ground. Grows in drier places than Drepanocladus or Warnstorfia spp., but
recorded from a variety of ± acidic situations. Detailed
habitat notes from Cornwall are as follows. Frequent records
on bark of Grey Willows ± shaded in old scrub or carr, up to
1.5 m above ground or water's edge. Often on fallen branches
in Grey Willow carr and sometimes extends onto leaf-litter and
other debris at base of bushes. Also epiphytic on Grey Willow
in more open situations: a patch on trunk of small isolated
bush growing in edge of pool in old granite quarry; on bark at
base of scrub at upper edge of inundation zone beside
Stithians Reservoir; base of young bush on wet heath. Other
records are from the ground in open, acidic sites: plentiful
at edge of a heathland track; locally plentiful at Porkellis
Moor on damp open ground over old copper-mine spoil in short
heathy vegetation and at path edges; small amounts on Goss
Moor on unshaded bare patches of muddy soil in acidic
grassland; strong patches on really wet ground of open marsh
forming on floor of china-clay pit. Also one record on
granitic boulder, unshaded, beside track of a disused railway.
Associates recorded include Homalia
trichomanoides, Hypnum andoi, Leskea polycarpa, Sphagnum denticulatum,
other mosses, grasses.
Six records c.fr.: capsules immature 3, 4, 6, 11;
dehiscing 6, dehisced
11.