*1: Near Lelant, 1861,
WC (PNZ) (Paton 1969a: 750).
*2: Rock near St
Minver, 1872, RVT (CMM) (Paton 1969a:
750).
Forms low patches of procumbent stems, sometimes
spreading to form low lawns covering several square metres.
Habitat notes in C&S are as follows. Frequent in very
short mossy grassland on calcareous sand in dunes, on slopes
above sea-cliffs (e.g. on blown sand and edges of serpentinite
rocks on unshaded cliff top) and on coastal hillsides near
dunes. Sometimes frequent on old, mortared stone walls e.g. by
a coastal hotel and around a cemetery (with Rhynchostegiella
tenella, Tortula
muralis, Zygodon
viridissimus var.
stirtonii). Also in very short vegetation on sand in
hollows between cobbles of old track at edge of dunes;
unshaded.
Not seen c.fr.
