Pallavicinia lyellii, found growing on Wedholme Flow NNR during the 2012 Spring Field Meeting by John O'Reilly in one of its characteristic habitats - the rotting base of a wet Molinia tussock.
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Tortula schimperi , photographed by Richard Fisk, who comments: Eastern England would appear to be the stronghold for this sp. I have about twenty records from Suffolk as opposed to seven or eight for T. subulata s.s. The strong bistratose margin of the leaves is visible in the photograph. The tall setae are produced in abundance in early spring making it an easy plant to spot when on the edge of woodland banks.
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Barbilophozia attenuata is a plant characteristic of rotting wood and peaty soils , especially in the north and west.
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Photographed by Dave Genney at Achnahaird. Comment from David Long: These are male plants which have the androecial scales closely overlapping in multiple rows, unlike M. hibernica where they are not overlapping and are in two rows along the mid line of the thallus. M. flotowiana is typical of lowland fens and dune slacks, M. hibernica is in montane neutral to mildly basic flushes and on wet cliffs.
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Growing on gravelly detritus beside a stream near Grasmere in the Lake District.
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On a typical upland boulder habitat on Pen y Ghent, photographed during the Spring BBS meeting to the Yorkshire Dales.
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Photographed by Maurice Eakin on clay of upturned tree root at Littlewood Forest, Slane, Co. Meath
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On a rock ledge on Pen y Ghent, photographed during the Spring BBS meeting to the Yorkshire Dales.
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Plagiochila norvegica (possibly a somatic mutant of P. porelloides) photographed by Bryan Edwards in Dorset, where it is confined to one large flint. No other site is known outside Scandinavia.
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Marchantia polymorpha ssp. ruderalis on churchyard path, Westonbirt, Gloucestershire. Photographed by Peter Martin.
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