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Common Pincushion - Dicranoweisia cirrata
A small to medium-sized plant, usually forming neat, yellow-green to mid-green cushions to 3 cm tall. The leaves are about 2.5 mm long, erect and somewhat wavy when moist, and strongly crisped when dry. They are narrowly spearhead-shaped and gradually taper to a finely acute tip. The leaf margins are narrowly recurved and the nerve extends into the tip. Capsules are common, cylindrical and erect on a yellow seta which is often curved when moist.
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Occurring on trees, fence posts, thatch and a variety of other organic substrates, and on exposed rocks and old stone walls in hilly districts.
All year round
Widespread and common in Britain except in the extreme north of Scotland.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Pincushion
- Species group:
- Mosses & Liverworts
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Dicranales
- Family:
- Rhabdoweisiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 30
- First record:
- 10/11/1991 (Dennis Ballard)
- Last record:
- 09/03/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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