Solenostoma obovatum Egg Flapwort

A paraoicous leafy liverwort which grows on rocks and sreamside detritus by streams, sometimes with the similar Solenostoma paroicum and other streamside species like Hygrobiella laxifolia, Scapania undulata and Dichodontium pellucidum. Its male bracts are found below the female bracts, like Solenostoma paroicum, but unlike that species the leaves are more circular in shape, are narrowed rapidly to their base and inserted across the stem and not diagonally like other similar Solenostoma species. It is a Boreal-montane species with a western and northern distribution in Britain and a distribution in Wales similar to that of Solenostoma paroicum. There has been just one record in West Glamorgan, from Cwm Clydach, made by Alan Orange in 1998. Sporophyte capsules are common in spring and summer.