Epipterygium tozeri Tozer's Thread-moss

A small, dioicous, acrocarpous moss which grows on warm, humid, non-calcareous, earthy hedgebanks along lanes or typically on banks along ditches and rivers. The shoots have a distinctive flattened appearance with distant, pale-green, glossy leaves. It has a southwestern distribution in Britain and a largely western distribution in Wales. This is also reflected in its distribution in West Glamorgan where all records are west of Neath Port Talbot and mostly from Gower. Sporophyte capsules are rare but  spherical bulbils are produced at the base of the stem.