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In crevice underneath sandstone rock overhang. Very awkward angle to get photos, and no sample as only a small amount. It was definitely glowing!

On wet sandstone rock wall shaded by trees. Leaves about 1mm long. No capsules.

Leaves untoothed

On shaded, damp limestone rock.

On unshaded limestone rocks on the side of the dale. Shoots up to 1cm tall, leaves about 2mm long with white hair points. Lower cells sinuose. Appear to have 4 guide cells in lower section of leaves.

Cf S. subsecundum. Growing with S. pulchrum on edge of mire in good condition with some flushing

We could only find one on flower this year within the west pit and road verge areas - very disappointing compared to other years

Terrestrial, near water (small bridge).

Terrestrial, bog, above water.

On limestone rock wall in shaded gully. Leaves just over 1mm long.

On imported carboniferous limestone

On shaded wet soil at base of ghyll in woodland

Seems to like being near open grown pine trees in sand heath 'savanna'. Growing intermixed with Hypnum cupressiforme var lacunosum in one photo

On horizontal dead birch trunk of wide diameter

On shallow, rather compacted, peat

In a flushed mire

On a large chalk stone

On chalk soil bank. Several patches on north facing slopes of old chalk quarry

On roadside chalky soil bank

On fallen wood. Plants 2-3cm deep green.

On concrete. With sporophytea with wiry black hairs on the capsule and seta

Definitely not Riccardia multifida this time! 😉

On rock in gorge bottom

Dry and wetted. Plants in full south facing sun

A scarce UK species but recorded from this area before.

Large cushions over rock

On deadwood

On wet peaty ground growing through Diplophyllum albicans

On bark

On Rubus

From sparsely vegetated muddy slopes of a fluctuating water body

May have been planted in the 1980s but staff at WCMC don't remember it in the mix! - anyway, since naturalised and established

On washed stonework on bank of the Thames seems most likely. Long nerved and characteristic 'waist' at leaf insertion

In open woodland north facing slope with Ptilium crista-castrensis and Acutifolia

On calc wall. Branch leaves egg shaped with toothed at margins with thick nerve

A Breckland specialist known from this locality

On bareish clay soil