Lepidozia reptans Creeping Fingerwort

A small, autoicous leafy liverwort which grows on logs, the bark of living trees, rock, in heathland and on woodland or hedge banks in humid, acidic places. The shoots have a neat pinnate structure with leaves that are cut into 4 finger-like lobes. It is a very common species in Britain, mostly in the west and north and it found throughout Wales. In West Glamorgan it is most common in the acidic woodlands of the South Wales Coalfield where it is frequently encountered forming large mats on decaying logs along with other leafy liverworts species such as Calypogeia muelleriana, Cephalozia curvifolia and Lophocolea heterophylla. Sporophytes are frequent.