Dilated Scalewort - Frullania dilatata
This is a subpinnately branched leafy liverwort that can be greenish or brownish in colour with shoots 0.7 to 1.5 mm wide. The leaves are up to 1 mm wide by 1.2 mm long with rounded lobes and large helmet shaped lobules of equal width and length. The underleaves are dioicious and often fertile. Female shoots have warty perianths whereas the male equivalents appear narrow by comparison.
On well lit trees and shrubs, especially ash, willow and poplar. Occasionally on rock or in turf.
All year.
Very common.
Common, particularly in the Charnwood area.
David Nicholls
Thornton reservoir
08 February 2022
David Nicholls
Ratby, Burroughs Wood
29 November 2023
Graham Calow
Sapcote
04 May 2013
Melinda Bell
Ashby, Ivanhoe Way, Fox Covert
17 January 2021
underside- leaves much smaller
Steve Woodward
Ulverscroft
27 March 2007
Melinda Bell
Ashby, Ivanhoe Way, Fox Covert
17 January 2021
warty perianths on female shoots
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood West, Ratby
09 January 2023
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood West, Ratby
09 January 2023
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood West, Ratby
09 January 2023
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood West, Ratby
09 January 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Dilated Scalewort
- Species group:
- Mosses & Liverworts
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Porellales
- Family:
- Frullaniaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 56
- First record:
- 27/03/2007 (Woodward, Steve)
- Last record:
- 30/03/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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Steve Woodward
Ulverscroft
07 March 2009
David Nicholls
Rutland Water
12 March 2016
David Nicholls
Rutland Water
26 September 2015
Melinda Bell
Coalville,Nature Alive
03 February 2021
David Nicholls
White's Wood, Swithland
28 February 2015
David Nicholls
Aylestone Meadows
26 February 2012
David Nicholls
Dimminsdale
15 March 2014
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
24 February 2022
Melinda Bell
Whitwick,Holly Hayes Wood
22 March 2022
