*1: Marazion Marsh,
1868, WC (NMW) (Paton 1969a:
704).
*2: Lerryn Woods, 1926,
FR (BM) (Paton 1969a: 704). This record is
older than that listed as new for vc2 by Paton (1961:
156).
Habitat notes from C&S are as follows. On thin
compressed soil of tracks, edges of paths, on banks, in marshy
depressions and other unshaded sites in areas of old copper
mine spoil (associates recorded include Archidium
alternifolium, Fossombronia
wondraczekii, Gymnocolea inflata, Solenostoma
gracillimum, Pleuridium subulatum,
Scapania compacta).
Damp tracks in heathy areas, among Grey Willow carrs and in a conifer
plantation, in open or partly shaded (associates include Radiola linoides, less
often Centunculus
minimus, Cicendia
filiformis). Soil on bank at woodland edge, slightly
shaded. Unshaded damp soil in trampled area near reservoir
edge, with Solenostoma
gracillimum, Riccardia
chamedryfolia. Colonist on damp clay of sparsely vegetated
banks, track edges and flat areas of clay spoil tips and in
and around working china clay quarries, unshaded or lightly
shaded (with Nardia
scalaris, less often Archidium
alternifolium, Cephaloziella
divaricata, Pohlia
drummondii). Also damp sand at mica dam edges. Bit on wet
clay over horizontal concrete of ruin of china-clay dry,
unshaded, with Gymnocolea inflata and
Lophozia
ventricosa. Thin soil over rocks in flood zone beside R.
Tamar, part shaded. Not rare in open mires with sphagna or on
bared peaty surfaces of hummocks in mires (associates recorded
Straminergon
stramineum, Campylopus
flexuosus).
Commonly with foliar gemmae. Not recorded
c.fr.
