Upper Clydach Valley (cont)

In addition to yesterdays fruiting Tetraphis (below left), there were also abundant Nowellia sporophytes, plus some Lepidozia capsules (below right). I brought some of the latter home to check for pearsonii as some patches looked rather leggy and more sprawling than reptans. However, sporophytes are unknown in pearsonii and the habitat was also wrong - too much wishful thinking on my part! Looking at the distribution of pearsonii it looks a reasonably feasible possibility, so worth bearing in mind, especially in humid rocky sites.

Atrichum crispum

Clyne Gardens tree stump

There's nothing particularly remarkable about this stump, which supported a modest selection of typical stump species, including some nice patches of Lepidozia reptans (photo below). However, one thing I've not encountered before was finding Microlejeunea ulicina growing on the shoots of Polytrichastrum formosum, the latter acting as pseudo-phorophyte for the normally arboreal M. ulicina.