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Potential for ‘special’ species
The
following are listed in the Devon Biodiversity
Action Plan, as species of conservation concern
associated with Devons oak woodland. Those underlined have been identified as present in Steward Wood and in some cases are hyper linked to photos and further information.
Mammals:
Dormouse (s), pipistrelle bat (s), greater horseshoe bat
(s), lesser horseshoe bat (l).
Birds:
Redstart (l), tree pipit (l), wood warbler
(l), pied flycatcher (l), buzzard (l), lesser-spotted
woodpecker (l).
Invertebrates:
Blue ground beetle (s), Pearl-bordered
fritillary (s), silver washed fritillary (l), wood white
(l), purple emperor (l), Scarce blackneck (m), orange
upperwing (m), double line (m), Wood cricket
Vascular Plants:
Bluebell (l), bastard balm, Wild
daffodil, endemic whitebeams - Sorbus vexans, S.
subcuneata, S. devoniensis, S Taxon D, Killarney fern (s),
Filmy ferns (l), hay-scented buckler fern (l).
Litchens and Mosses:
Amanita phalloides, Boletus
albidus, B. torosus, B. impolitus, Hygrophorus mesetphrus,
H. quercetorum, Zygodon forsteri (m), Douinia ovata,
knothole moss, Schismatomma graphidoides (s), Graphina
pauciloculata (m), Parmelia taylorensis (l), golden hair-lichen
Teloschistes flavicans (l), Pannaria sampaiana (l),
Bryoria smithii (l), Lobaria amplissima (l), Lobaria
virens (l), string of sausages lichen.
Note:
Species listed as globally threatened or declining in the
Report of the UK Biodiversity Steering Group are marked
as (s) , being on the Short List for which costed
national action plans have been produced; (m), being on
the Middle List, for which national action plans will
shortly be produced; and (l) , being on the Long List of
species of less immediate priority:
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