Barbilophozia attenuata

Revised name: Orthocaulis attenuatus

English name: Trunk pawwort

A leafy liverwort that forms a crowd of small and thin gemmae-bearing shoots that stick up from the substratum. The pale green species mostly has three-lobed leaves.

In Scotland, Barbilophozia attenuata has a scattered upland distribution where it grows on logs, stumps, tree trunks, peaty soil and base-poor boulders in damp, shady woodlands, and in block screes, on sandstone crags and in ravines. BBS distribution map

Look out for Dicranum fuscescens, Dicranum scoparium, Lepidozia reptans and Scapania gracilis nearby.