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The Liverwort Year – 2015 Total of 97 Liverwort Vouchers Were All the Vouchers New County Records New county records – liverworts Recorder for Liverworts, Sam Bosanquet, and Recorder for Mosses, Tom Blockeel, present their annual reports and new vice-county record lists The liverwort year – 2015 total of 97 liverwort vouchers were all the vouchers. 68 taxa were recorded, which is confirmed during 2015, and one record a slight increase on the 62 sent in 2014. Overall, was deleted. There were two duplicates vice-county recording continues at a good pace, A– specimens sent in twice for the same vice- albeit at a lower level than during the push for county – so the true number of additions and the Atlas, with no sign of the post-Atlas drop amendments in 2015 was 96. Almost exactly in activity that was a feature of the mid to late rFig. 1. Coranabinnia Lough, Nephin Beg Mts., Co. Mayo, site of Radula voluta. R.L. Hodd the same number of vouchers was sent in 2014. 1990s. welcome were the first two records of L. wenzelii North Ebudes (104) was Targionia hypophylla, Specimens came from 42 British and Irish vice- that I have received during my time as Liverwort and this vice-county also produced Anthoceros counties, with most counties mustering 1 or The liverwort year Recorder; these coming from Main Argyll (98) punctatus and Calypogeia suecica for Nick 2 vouchers each. Renfrewshire 76, which was and West Sutherland (108). They showed Hodgetts during a visit to Scalpay. Cephaloziella visited during the BBS Spring Meeting, mustered A good number of really notable liverworts the characters described in Paton (1999) and elachista was the rarest of Tristan ap Rheinallt’s an amazing 21 vouchers, 16 of which were new; were found new to various vice-counties during Damsholt (2002), and therefore the same criteria three new species for the Outer Hebrides (110). 6 were sent from South Devon 3; 4 each from the year. Lophozia opacifolia experienced the used in the Atlas. The second Scottish colony David Long dug up some Aneura mirabilis from Dumfriesshire 72, Outer Hebrides 110 and most marked change when compared with the of Petalophyllum ralfsii, in the Outer Hebrides Berwickshire (81), and Liz Kungu’s Douinia Dublin H21; and 3 each from North Ebudes 2014 Atlas, because it was found new for Wales (110), was the result of a hunch that bryologists ovata from Dumfriesshire (72) was another 104, Limerick H8 and the Channel Islands (at several sites in Caernarvonshire 49) and had not studied much of the Hebridean machair excellent record from southern Scotland. Des C. Rory Hodd was the most prolific recorder southern Scotland (Peeblesshire 78), as well in this species’ short season, and the hunch was Callaghan’s Calypogeia integristipula from of the 28 who sent liverwort vouchers in 2015, as further south in Ireland (Waterford H6 and followed up by targeted fieldwork. There is Dunbartonshire (99) bridges the north-south contributing 15 specimens, with David Long Limerick H8) than it was previously known. also only one previous Scottish record of Riccia Scottish range of this species. Further north, and Nick Hodgetts close behind with 12 and 11 This southward range extension resulted from huebeneriana, so the Dunbartonshire (99) find Gordon Rothero found both Aphanolejeunea respectively. Together with Tom Blockeel, who routine checking of pale green Lophozia, rather is significant; its identification was initially microscopica and Colura calyptrifolia in a ravine sent 8 specimens, they contributed nearly half of than a genuine change in distribution. Equally suggested on Twitter! in Mid Perth (88), which is a good distance east In addition to the records of UK significance of their oceanic heartland, as well as Tritomaria The number of records reported in 2015 is as follows: mentioned above, Scotland experienced a exsecta in Fife (85), again well east of its main 2015 2014 bumper year for liverwort recording and Scottish range. Channel Channel England Wales Scotland Ireland England Wales Scotland Ireland accounted for nearly half of all the specimens Most English activity came from the Islands Islands received. Highlights of the Spring Meeting south-west, with Roy Jeffery and Mark Pool New entries 14 4 39 10 – 14 8 16 16 – in Renfrewshire (76) included Barbilophozia contributing vouchers from South Devon (3) that Debrackets* 11 – 7 7 3 11 1 7 17 – hatcheri, Calypogeia sphagnicola, Cephalozia included Fossombronia angulosa, F. foveolata, F. Bracketings† – – – – – – – 1 – – loitlesbergeri, C. pleniceps, Fossombronia incurva wondraczekii and Barbilophozia barbata, and the Deletions – – 1 – – 1 – – – – and Ptilidium pulcherrimum. Rory Whytock also Wessex group sending records of three ‘spreaders’ collected C. pleniceps from Ayrshire (75), and (see below). The south-east answered with Tom Totals 25 4 47 17 3 26 9 24 33 0 David Long found F. incurva in Dumfriesshire Ottley’s debracketters of Leiocolea badensis and *Debrackets are existing vice-county entries for which a post-1960 record has been vouched. †Bracketings are (72) alongside F. fimbriata. The liverwort Riccia subbifurca from West Sussex (13), and existing entries for which the post-1960 records are unconfirmed or erroneous, but older record(s) are valid. highlight of the Summer Meeting on Eigg, in Nick Law verified the continued presence ofR. 76 FieldBryology No115 | May16 FieldBryology No115 | May16 77 New County Records New county records – liverworts Recorder for Liverworts, Sam Bosanquet, and Recorder for Mosses, Tom Blockeel, present their annual reports and new vice-county record lists The liverwort year – 2015 total of 97 liverwort vouchers were all the vouchers. 68 taxa were recorded, which is confirmed during 2015, and one record a slight increase on the 62 sent in 2014. Overall, was deleted. There were two duplicates vice-county recording continues at a good pace, A– specimens sent in twice for the same vice- albeit at a lower level than during the push for county – so the true number of additions and the Atlas, with no sign of the post-Atlas drop amendments in 2015 was 96. Almost exactly in activity that was a feature of the mid to late rFig. 1. Coranabinnia Lough, Nephin Beg Mts., Co. Mayo, site of Radula voluta. R.L. Hodd the same number of vouchers was sent in 2014. 1990s. welcome were the first two records of L. wenzelii North Ebudes (104) was Targionia hypophylla, Specimens came from 42 British and Irish vice- that I have received during my time as Liverwort and this vice-county also produced Anthoceros counties, with most counties mustering 1 or The liverwort year Recorder; these coming from Main Argyll (98) punctatus and Calypogeia suecica for Nick 2 vouchers each. Renfrewshire 76, which was and West Sutherland (108). They showed Hodgetts during a visit to Scalpay. Cephaloziella visited during the BBS Spring Meeting, mustered A good number of really notable liverworts the characters described in Paton (1999) and elachista was the rarest of Tristan ap Rheinallt’s an amazing 21 vouchers, 16 of which were new; were found new to various vice-counties during Damsholt (2002), and therefore the same criteria three new species for the Outer Hebrides (110). 6 were sent from South Devon 3; 4 each from the year. Lophozia opacifolia experienced the used in the Atlas. The second Scottish colony David Long dug up some Aneura mirabilis from Dumfriesshire 72, Outer Hebrides 110 and most marked change when compared with the of Petalophyllum ralfsii, in the Outer Hebrides Berwickshire (81), and Liz Kungu’s Douinia Dublin H21; and 3 each from North Ebudes 2014 Atlas, because it was found new for Wales (110), was the result of a hunch that bryologists ovata from Dumfriesshire (72) was another 104, Limerick H8 and the Channel Islands (at several sites in Caernarvonshire 49) and had not studied much of the Hebridean machair excellent record from southern Scotland. Des C. Rory Hodd was the most prolific recorder southern Scotland (Peeblesshire 78), as well in this species’ short season, and the hunch was Callaghan’s Calypogeia integristipula from of the 28 who sent liverwort vouchers in 2015, as further south in Ireland (Waterford H6 and followed up by targeted fieldwork. There is Dunbartonshire (99) bridges the north-south contributing 15 specimens, with David Long Limerick H8) than it was previously known. also only one previous Scottish record of Riccia Scottish range of this species. Further north, and Nick Hodgetts close behind with 12 and 11 This southward range extension resulted from huebeneriana, so the Dunbartonshire (99) find Gordon Rothero found both Aphanolejeunea respectively. Together with Tom Blockeel, who routine checking of pale green Lophozia, rather is significant; its identification was initially microscopica and Colura calyptrifolia in a ravine sent 8 specimens, they contributed nearly half of than a genuine change in distribution. Equally suggested on Twitter! in Mid Perth (88), which is a good distance east In addition to the records of UK significance of their oceanic heartland, as well as Tritomaria The number of records reported in 2015 is as follows: mentioned above, Scotland experienced a exsecta in Fife (85), again well east of its main 2015 2014 bumper year for liverwort recording and Scottish range. Channel Channel England Wales Scotland Ireland England Wales Scotland Ireland accounted for nearly half of all the specimens Most English activity came from the Islands Islands received. Highlights of the Spring Meeting south-west, with Roy Jeffery and Mark Pool New entries 14 4 39 10 – 14 8 16 16 – in Renfrewshire (76) included Barbilophozia contributing vouchers from South Devon (3) that Debrackets* 11 – 7 7 3 11 1 7 17 – hatcheri, Calypogeia sphagnicola, Cephalozia included Fossombronia angulosa, F. foveolata, F. Bracketings† – – – – – – – 1 – – loitlesbergeri, C. pleniceps, Fossombronia incurva wondraczekii and Barbilophozia barbata, and the Deletions – – 1 – – 1 – – – – and Ptilidium pulcherrimum. Rory Whytock also Wessex group sending records of three ‘spreaders’ collected C.
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