Saccogyna viticulosa Straggling Pouchwort

A dioicous leafy liverwort which grows in large sheets on shaded, often vertical rocks and banks in humid valleys and woodland. It is an attractive liverwort with long shoots, neat opposite leaves and bilobed underleaves. It is an Oceanic species with a distinct western distribution in Britain and found throughout most of Wales. In West Glamorgan it is particularly frequent in the humid valleys and ravines of Neath Port Talbot, such as the Melincwrt Valley and also on the south Gower cliffs between Mewslade and Cwm Ivy Tor. Sporophytes are very rare.