West Highland Flora

Yellow Cypress Clubmoss


Diphasiastrum complanatum

 

Only known from Canisp, in Sutherland, where it is locally plentiful on stony ground.  It may be awaiting discovery elsewhere!

ID: Like D alpinum but not, or only slightly, glaucous.  Branches strongly flattened, cones on upright branches that only have scattered leaves (in D alpinum the cones are on the ends of otherwise normal branches)

Other features: Sterile branches not so upright as in D alpinum.  Leaves on the underside of creeping stems are unstalked and c 1 mm wide (stalked and c 0.5 mm wide in D alpinum)

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