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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Entosthodon 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.
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Fertile Metzgeria furcata captured by Paul Bowyer in the New Forest, autumn 2018
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The diminutive liverwort Scapania umbrosa growing on Nowellia covered logs at East Water, Exmoor.
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