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.
View moreTrichocolea tomentella (Handsome Woollywort), living up to its name in Killarney National Park during the Kerry Summer Meeting 2019.
View moreCephalozia crassifolia (Irish Pincerwort), spotted by Rory Hodd at Derrycunihy Falls during the Kerry Summer Meeting 2019.
View moreCololejeunea rossettiana, looking very prickly indeed! Collected from Goblin Combe, Somerset, where it was growing on Thamnobryum alopecurum on a boulder.
View moreLepidozia cupressina, much admired in boulder scree near Cwmavon, S. Wales during a Gloucester Bryophyte Group out-of-county meeting in April 2019.
View moreOrthotrichum 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.
View moreMarchantia polymorpha photographed by Brad Scott in Ashdown Forest, Sussex 25th May 2014. Common but amazing nevertheless!
View moreEntosthodon muhlenbergii found by Andrew Branson and Sharon Pilkington in unimproved Carboniferous limestone grassland at Westbury Beacon, on the southern scarp of the Mendip Hills, Somerset.
View moreFertile Metzgeria furcata captured by Paul Bowyer in the New Forest, autumn 2018
View moreThe diminutive liverwort Scapania umbrosa growing on Nowellia covered logs at East Water, Exmoor.
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