Saturday 11 February 2017

Well done Team!

I'm just finalising the 2016 Liverwort Year stats, and VC41 came =3rd in terms of the number of new (and debracketted) vice-county liverwort records made in 2016 with 6.  You/we were only beaten by Tyrone and East Donegal, which were visited by the BBS Summer Meeting, and Glamorgan drew with West Gloucestershire.  Breconshire came =6th with 3 NVCRs, beaten only by those four VCs and Ayrshire.  Of course, we could have had Phaeoceros carolinianus if the colony hadn't been steadfastly non-fertile until January 2017!

My top liverwort tips for 2017 NVCRs in Glamorgan or Brecon
are Telaranea europaea (above) or Cephalozia crassifolia...

2 comments:

  1. Ambitious, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Drepanolejeunea has to be a good bet...

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  2. I have seen both of those liverworts on peaty ditch sides in conifer plantations in south-central Ireland, so they are on the move east. Drepanolejeunea is surely only a matter of time in VC41!

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