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Wednesday 26 December 2018

Declining acidophiles

Just before Christmas I spotted three uncommon mosses at Dingestow: Plagiothecium latebricola was new for the area (bryophyte number 242), Bryum moravicum was the 2nd Dingestow record and the first in VC35 since 2008, and Aulacomnium androgynum used to be frequent at Dingestow in 1999/2000 but was last seen in VC35 in 2009.  The Plagiothecium is remarkably small and easily ignored/overlooked, but formed a dense cover over ca. 30 square cm of a huge log.



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2 comments:

  1. Barry Stewart27 December 2018 at 06:53

    I'd like to think the amorphous appearance of latebricola would ignite my curiosity, a species I've yet to spot. Do we know why androgynum had declined?

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  2. GSM28 December 2018 at 10:25

    would probably have dismissed it as alga without my specs.

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