Identification notes
At last – a Pohlia that definitely won’t turn out to be P. annotina when you get it home. Pohlia flexuosa is really distinctive (for a bulbiferous Pohlia, that is). From afar, it looks like so many of its close relatives, but examine the shoots with your hand-lens and they’ll look strangely spotty. Clusters of tiny, orange or orange-brown bulbils in many of the leaf axils are the reason and are a little reminiscent of P. camptotrachela.
Under a compound microscope though, the bulbils quickly reveal themselves to be angular and knobbly and like no other Pohlia at all. Easy!
