Pterogonium gracile (Bird’s-foot Wing-moss). Understated elegance - surely deserves a better common name than this! Photo: Jo Denyer, on the Kerry Summer meeting 2019
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A non-English bryophyte for a change. Captured by Peter Martin in Greece (under the pretence of visiting his daughter).
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Lejeunea flava (Yellow pouncewort) in Derrycunihy Wood during the Kerry Summer Meeting 2019.
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Sphagnum quinquefarium (Five-ranked Bog-moss) in Gallavally Wood during the Kerry Summer Meeting 2019. Sometimes also called the anti-social Sphagnum because plants tend not to grow close together.
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Trichocolea tomentella (Handsome Woollywort), living up to its name in Killarney National Park during the Kerry Summer Meeting 2019.
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Cephalozia crassifolia (Irish Pincerwort), spotted by Rory Hodd at Derrycunihy Falls during the Kerry Summer Meeting 2019.
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Cololejeunea rossettiana, looking very prickly indeed! Collected from Goblin Combe, Somerset, where it was growing on Thamnobryum alopecurum on a boulder.
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Lepidozia cupressina, much admired in boulder scree near Cwmavon, S. Wales during a Gloucester Bryophyte Group out-of-county meeting in April 2019.
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Orthotrichum rupestre photographed at a Wessex Bryology Group meeting at Fyfield Down, Wiltshire in March 2019. The most striking feature of this mainly saxicolous (in Britain) species, is its extremely hairy calyptra.
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Marchantia polymorpha photographed by Brad Scott in Ashdown Forest, Sussex 25th May 2014. Common but amazing nevertheless!
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