[1] It was first found in Britain in Scotland near Newcastleton in Roxburghshire by Evelyn M. Lobley in 1948, identified by E. F. Warburg among other moss specimens of the same genus that she had collected.

With this additional information about its distribution, it may be appropriate to change its conservation status in Britain to Near Threatened or even Least Concern, provided its specific habitat is maintained.

The reproductive structure has a thick, reddish stalk and the spore capsule is a flared trumpet shape.

[4] Seligeria carniolica has been found in two types of habitat, both relying on water courses in limestone rock where the moss can be regularly submerged.

In Norway and Britain it has been found on limestone or other calcareous rocks in shaded streams where it can be regularly submerged.