Cirriphyllum piliferum Hair-pointed Feather-moss

A pale, whitish-green, pleurocarpous moss with pinnate branching and shoots ending in a pale-coloured, sharp point. The distinctive leaves are egg-shaped, concave and contracted abruptly to a long, hair-like point. It is a moss of lightly shaded areas in woodland and hedgebanks, preferably on soils with some degree of base-richness. It is fairly commmon throughout most of Britain and is widespread in Wales. In West Galmorgan it is a frequent and locally common member of the Gower Ash woodland ground flora and it is frequent in the riparian corridor woodlands in the Vale of Neath. It is dioicous and sporophyte capsules are rare.