Friday 21 November 2014

Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus

I was out in southern Ceredigion yesterday (Capel Dewi, just north of the Teifi) doing Brown Hairstreak egg surveys, and was struck, as always when doing BH surveys in SW Wales, by the abundance of R. triquetrus on lane banks.

I've still to record this species in Glam! Barry, could you post a map please? Maybe one for each of the Rhytidiadelphus species if you have time. Thanks.

8 comments:

  1. As you can see Graham, Charles & Hilary are going great guns in NPT!

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  2. Excellent, thanks Barry. Great news about the subpinnatus (I know it was ages ago now but I hadn't realised it'd been recorded in VC41).

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  3. There are 2 SEWBReC records, the first attributed to you!

    Taxon Vernacular Site Gridref VC Quantity Date Recorder Method Comment
    Rhytidiadelphus subpinnatus Scarce Turf-moss Sgwd Gwladys (NPT) SN896092 41 0 27 Nov 2008 Graham Motley Unknown LC0002150000AP89 New species to Glamorgan. Record reported by Michael Launder.
    Rhytidiadelphus subpinnatus Scarce Turf-moss Craig y Ddinas north side SN912080 41 0 09 Dec 2008 S.D.S. Bosanquet & G.S. Motley Unknown WA000059000093D4 limestone 5 patches on rocky limestone woodland floor >10m above lower path

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  4. Barry, I think you've got Graham's initials confused with mine!

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  5. Sorry George - never was good at multi-tasking!

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  6. Craig y Ddinas is in VC42 I think, so there's a VC error in the second record. The first is correct, but is the only VC41 record of R subpinn.

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  7. Sam correct - the second is by the Meltte in Brecks - I presume this is a LRC error. Sam, Ray and myself probably spent best part of a day each removing all the errors from the BIS bryophyte database. I just hope they aren't creating more. I haven't yet been able to face having a good look through the Brecks Vascular plant register as first few things I glanced at had errors and I feared the worst.

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  8. If you check out the R. squarrosus map there's an awful lot of records in the Mons half of Caerphilly! These should be easy to expunge ... sorry, 'change v-c attributes' ... I must become less parochial ;-)

    Note to oneself: GSM = Graham & GMT with a pic of a moth = George!

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