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Barbilophozia attenuata (Mart.) Loeske

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This liverwort is extremely rare in eastern England, not having been recorded for Middlesex or Suffolk, and believed now to be extinct in Hertfordhire. It was found by Eric Saunders in Monk Wood, Epping Forest, on a stump among Leucobryum, near Bellinger's Hollow in 1962. Trans.Brit.Bryo.Soc. 4: 485. It was not refound until 1979, when KJA found an extensive patch on the broken eastern bank of Loughton Brook up on Court Hill, in Great Monk Wood, where it was growing in the interstices of Leucobryum (11 March 1979). It has persisted in the same patch over the years since, where it is inconspicuous until the pale shoots erupt from the Leucobryum carpet in spring. A detailed map of the site (below) was made in 2003-2004. Abundant with several pure patches. January 2012. KJA.