Port Eynon Point

A Fossombronia, which was widely distributed along the heavily trodden grass walkway on Port Eynon Point headland, under the microscope proved to be incurva and not the expected husnotii. This is only the third record for vc41.

Crofty update

male Fossombronia incurva

I spent about an hour on Christmas Eve exploring the abandoned Crofty building plot and recorded Cephaloziella integerrima on a total 12 of the post hole tumps, a few small patches on some of the adjacent banks, plus some reasonable patches on the abandoned footings themselves. The list of direct associates (i.e species within 10cm) below included Fossombronia incurva, this being just the second county record.

female plants of Fossombronia incurva with Ephemerum minutissimum

Direct associates of Cephaloziella integerrima:

Achillea millefolium

Agrostis capillaris

Aira praecox

Anthoxanthum odoratum

Archidium alternifolium

Bellis perennis

Brachytheciastrum velutinum

Brachythecium mildeanum
Bryoerythrophyllum ferruginascens

Bryum dichotomum

Bryum pallens

Calliergonella cuspidata

Carex flacca

Centaurium erythraea

Cephaloziella divaricata

Ceratodon purpureus

Cladonia fimbriata
Cladonia furcata

Cladonia humilis

Cladonia rangiformis

Cynosurus cristatus

Dactylis glomerata

Dicranella rufescens

Didymodon fallax

Didymodon insulanus

Ephemerum minutissimum

Ephemerum serratum

Festuca ovina

Fossombronia incurva

Holcus lanatus

Hypnum cupressiforme var. lacunosum

Hypochaeris radicata

Leontodon saxatilis

Lotus corniculatus

Luzula campestris

Odontites vernus

Oxyrrhynchium hians

Pilosella officinarum

Plantago coronopus

Pleuridium subulatum
Plantago lanceolata

Prunella vulgaris

Pseudoscleropodium purum

Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus

Tortula truncata

Trifolium dubium

Trifolium repens

Vicia sativa subsp. segetalis

Viola riviniana

Weissia controversa var. controversa

Weedy Frillwort at Nat. Bot. Garden of Wales

A Fossombronia fruiting in the car park today keyed out as incurva, a new species for me. The habitat isn't quite the norm for this species so I hope I've got it right, but the spore size plus the ornamentation, with some in clusters of 4, are all right.

spores in clusters of 4

small tick marks are 2.5µm