Status in Britain: Local

This thalloid liverwort is generally a pale green in colour with red-brown or purplish margins, and its branches up to 1cm wide. The upper surface of the thallus has hexagonal markings and at the centre of each hexagon is a small pore. This liverwort is a strong calcicole and is found on a wide variety of basic substrates, including soil in calcareous fens and flushes, stream-banks, moist or dry rocks and cliffs, on the crumbling mortar of walls, as well as in dune-slacks.