*2: On damp sand near
edge of pool, W. of Foxhole, SW95, 1999, DTH 99-47
(BBSUK, DTH) (Rothero 2000:
54).
Recorded only from china-clay workings, in St
Austell area and on Bodmin Moor. Grows as scattered stems or
forming sparse lawns. Habitat notes from Cornwall are as
follows. W. of Foxhole, E. of Bugle, Park Pit: on damp to wet
unshaded gritty, sand, clay and muddy sediments of edges of
pools (including mica dams), where probably inundated at
times; associates Blasia pusilla, Solenostoma
gracillimum,
Lophozia incisa,
Nardia scalaris,
Pohlia annotina,
Scapania irrigua;
Lythrum portula,
Radiola linoides. On unshaded damp gritty china-clay spoil
on slightly flushed edge of track near quarry, with Pohlia annotina.
Locally plentiful, forming small lawns, in hollows subject to
flooding in unshaded china clay spoil. On near-horizontal damp
clay on bank of china-clay spoil near
works.
Only recorded with bulbils. Not seen c.fr.
(sporophytes are rare in Britain, mature in
late spring, according to M.J. Wigginton in Hill et al. 1994:
64).