*2: On open gritty soil
near disused granite quarry, 220 m alt., Hantergantick Quarry,
SX17, 2001, DTH 01-1060 (BBSUK) (Rothero
2002: 46).
Six records in Cornwall, but easily
overlooked so perhaps under-recorded. Grows mixed with other
mosses or forms small low patches (low lawns). Hantergantick
Quarry, 2001: small patches and scattered stems with other low
mosses, on unshaded disturbed gritty soil near disused quarry.
N. of St Ann's Chapel, 2004: numerous patches in two areas, on
thin compressed soil on unshaded stony ground with sparse low
vegetation, ca 250
m alt., on tracks near old mine and area surfaced with
mine-spoil on heathland nearby; associates recorded were Cephaloziella
integerrima, Ceratodon purpureus,
others close by included Barbula convoluta, Bryum dichotomum, Bryoerythrophyllum
recurvirostrum, Scapania compacta.
Crow's Nest: unshaded stony soil at track edges in two places
at old copper-mine site, with sparse low vegetation,
associates including Bryum capillare, Calliergonella
cuspidata, Ceratodon purpureus,
Cratoneuron
filicinum, Hypnum sp., Cladonia sp.; also,
with other mosses on thin soil amongst old masonry at top of
mine-shaft, lightly shaded. Craddock Moor Mine: on unshaded
partly bare soil exposed on slope near ruined mine
chimney.
Rhizoidal tubers present on plants from all six
localities. Not seen c.fr.