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Name few endangered and threatened plants of the British Isles?
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Flowering plants
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Creeping marshwort Apium repens
Early gentian Gentianella anglica (endemic)
Eyebrights Euphrasia sp. (endemic)
Fen orchid Liparis loeselii
Floating water-plantain Luronium natans
Holly-leaved naiad Najas marina
Lady's slipper orchid Cypripedium calceolus
Lundy cabbage Coincya wrightii (endemic)
Mountain scurvy-grass Cochlearia micacea (probably endemic)
a lot more to go....
Ferns
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Killarney fern Trichomanes speciosum
Newman's lady fern Athyrium flexile (probably endemic)
Fungi
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Devil's bolete Boletus satanus
Nail fungus Poronia punctata
Sandy stilt puffball Battarraea phalloides
Tulostoma niveum
Lichens
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Elm's gyalecta Gyalecta ulmi
Orange-fruited elm-lichen Caloplaca luteoalba
Pseudocyphellaria aurata
Pseudocyphellaria novegica
River jelly lichen Collema dishotomum
Mosses
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Cornish path-moss Ditrichum cornubicum (endemic)
Derbyshire feather-moss Thamnobryum angustifolium (endemic)
Glaucous beard-moss Didymodon glaucus
Liverworts
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Atlantic lejeunea Lejeunea mandonii
Marsh earwort Jamesoniella undulifolia
Stoneworts
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Mossy stonewort Chara muscosa (probably extinct)
For more info:
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-endangered-species-in-the-British-Isles#Plants
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Creeping marshwort Apium repens
Early gentian Gentianella anglica (endemic)
Eyebrights Euphrasia sp. (endemic)
Fen orchid Liparis loeselii
Floating water-plantain Luronium natans
Holly-leaved naiad Najas marina
Lady's slipper orchid Cypripedium calceolus
Lundy cabbage Coincya wrightii (endemic)
Mountain scurvy-grass Cochlearia micacea (probably endemic)
a lot more to go....
Ferns
-----------
Killarney fern Trichomanes speciosum
Newman's lady fern Athyrium flexile (probably endemic)
Fungi
---------
Devil's bolete Boletus satanus
Nail fungus Poronia punctata
Sandy stilt puffball Battarraea phalloides
Tulostoma niveum
Lichens
-----------
Elm's gyalecta Gyalecta ulmi
Orange-fruited elm-lichen Caloplaca luteoalba
Pseudocyphellaria aurata
Pseudocyphellaria novegica
River jelly lichen Collema dishotomum
Mosses
----------
Cornish path-moss Ditrichum cornubicum (endemic)
Derbyshire feather-moss Thamnobryum angustifolium (endemic)
Glaucous beard-moss Didymodon glaucus
Liverworts
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Atlantic lejeunea Lejeunea mandonii
Marsh earwort Jamesoniella undulifolia
Stoneworts
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Mossy stonewort Chara muscosa (probably extinct)
For more info:
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-endangered-species-in-the-British-Isles#Plants
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