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Nowellia curvifolia:

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Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt. P.Beauv                                                                    Rustwort

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As it appeared on two logs when found initially, it seems likely that it has been producing capsules, unless fortuitously two spores from elsewhere happened to arrive on adjacent logs, an extremely unlikely scenario.

 

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Epping Forest, Little Monk Wood just north of New Ride car park. On two adjacent rotting Beech logs embedded in an algal mat of Klebshormidium mucosum. 29 December 2009. New county record. [herb.BBS Cardiff]. Kenneth J. Adams.

  418,981 19 Epping Forest, same site. Still present in small quantity on one log, but much of the upper surface of the log now rotted away. No sign now on the other log, also largely rotted away. 21 January 2012.