Floating Hook-moss - Warnstorfia fluitans
This lax, straggling, dingy, dark green pleurocarp lacks red tones. Its leaves are always curved, but seldom very strongly so. This and its long, irregular branches give W. fluitans a distinctive appearance. Rhizoids are sometimes produced on the leaf tip. Shoots may be many centimetres long, and leaves are 3 to 5.5 mm long. Curved, cylindrical capsules occasionally form, borne on a seta about 4 to 8 cm long.
Typical of nutrient-poor, base-poor, still water, especially pools fed by rainwater in the uplands.
All year round.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
David Nicholls
Ratby garden
23 September 2016
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Species profile
- Common names
- Floating Hook-moss
- Species group:
- Mosses & Liverworts
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Hypnales
- Family:
- Calliergonaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 23/09/2016 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 24/03/2017 (Nicholls, David)
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