I see your excurrent green
Tortula nerve, George, and raise one of my own. This is from an
Encalypta '
vulgaris'
on the limestone of Creigiau Eglwyseg in Denbighshire from a couple of weeks ago. However, the Floras say that
E. vulgaris has the nerve ending in the leaf tip and Tom Blockeel recently published the occurrence of the excurrent-nerved
E. pilifera in Britain (including a collection of mine from the NE Wales limestone). The costa of
E. pilifera is usually much longer than this, but the lingulate leaf shape also points to that species. I am puzzled!
I checked several patches of Encalypta vulgaris last week and none had excurrent nerves; maybe this really is E pilifera.
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