Showing posts with label fragrans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fragrans. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Lophocolea fragrans in Glamorgan

Thought I'd slip in a pic of my only record of this species, which I found last December growing on a fallen branch by a stream in Cilibion Plantation (SS529918). It's a rather diminutive Lophocolea but the irregular multi-toothed appearance is pretty distinctive. There are no other records on MapMate but the NBN shows a 2002 record for SN70, which may or may not be in Glamorgan? Be interesting to find out more details of this or any other Glam records?
General habitat shot, L. fragrans site was just off to the right 

Monday, 17 November 2014

Doing 'my' bit {of SN60}

The blog has done its thing: I'm feeling reinvigorated to go mossing!  I headed out today to 'my' bit of SN60 so as to compliment Barry's sterling efforts in VC41.  SN60E has a lot of habitat including wooded valleys and the Lougher, but is largely inaccessible because the footpaths all cross pasture and the lanes are restricted to one side.  Anyway, I got 60+ species in the lanes and a stream valley SE of Ty-croes, complimenting a few things grabbed by Ian Morgan in the 1990s and IDed for him by Jonathan Graham.

Unexpected highlight of the day was a 3x3cm patch of Lophocolea fragrans on a small rock on the bank of a very ordinary roadside stream.  Sorry, these iPod photos are awful!


This species was found by the BBS at Glynhir in SN61, and this SN60 record represents the 11th Carms hectad with this uncommon liverwort.  Other vaguely noteworthy species present included Orthotrichum stramineum, Fissidens celticus, Hookeria and Dichodontium agg.