I wasn't expecting to see any bryophytes at all when I took the kids up to Storey Arms to play in the snow on Saturday. However, the streams and flushes were free of ice and snow, and a few hastily grabbed tufts of moss provided some nice species I don't see very often (or at all) down my way:
Fissidens osmundoides,
Campylium stellatum and this rather stunning
Scorpidium revolvens, as well as the more familiar
Ctenidium molluscum and
Philonotis fontanum.
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Scorpidium revolvens |
These were just above the lay-by on the lower slopes of Fan Fawr (SN976203). Graham - I assume this area has been well covered given its accessibility?
A very uncommon/under-recorded species in Glamorgan, but I suspect it's more frequent in the Beacons. Tidy!
ReplyDeleteThe area between Storey Arms and Craig cerrig-gleisiad is probably best recorded part of vc42
ReplyDeleteThanks Graham...I thought that might be the case.
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