Michael Lueth

Very nice landscape with a lot of bryophytes. I think L. cupressina is quite common in that region. Perhaps it is overgrown here from one of the big pleurocarp moss. But it will come at another place again.

Beim Hineinfassen aber bitte nicht zerstören. Das Polster ist vermutlich Jahrzehnte alt.

Du wirst sie schon begeistern! Da hab ich keine Bedenken...

Grimmia austrofunalis Müll. Hal.
Andes, Merida, sourrounding of Laguna Coromoto, Subparamos, on open rock, gneis, 3000 m, leg 2001 M. Lüth 3302
Stem without central strand, costal cells mostly uniform, hydroids lacking, big and somewhat glossy plants

Bartramia microstoma Mitt.
Andes, Merida, on way to Laguna Coromoto, open part in cloud forest, on steep slope, at 2700 m, leg 2001 Lüth 3300
Reminds to a small B. itiphyllum, but with different shape of leaf base and has firm though pellucid cells at shoulder margins.

Atractylocarpus longisetus (Hooker) Bartram
Andes, Merida, on way to Laguna Coromoto, cloud forest, on root of tree, at 2500 m, leg 2001 Lüth 3297
Unlike to Campylopus with costa smooth at back.

Porotrichum lancifrons (Hampe) Mitt.
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, way to Laguna Coromoto, cloud forest, on tree trunk and root, 2500 m, leg. 2001 Lüth 3295.
Characterized by well-developed stipe and strongly appressed hyalin stipe leaves.

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Tortula andicola Mont.
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico Espejo near Pico Bolivar
Polylepis forest on boulder slope at 4200 m, leg 2001 Lüth
Characteristic are the collenchymatous leaf cells and some sharp teeth at the base of the awn.

Thidium peruvianum
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico Espejo near Pico Bolivar
Polylepis forest on boulder slope at 4200 m, leg 2001 Lüth 3284
With one papilla per cell in branch leaves like T. delicatulum, but with long tapering stem leaves.

Campylopus nivalis (Brid.) Brid. var. nivalis
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico Espejo near Pico Bolivar
Polylepis forest on boulder slope at 4200 m, leg 2001 Lüth 3281, det J.-P. Frahm

Lepyrodon tomentosus (Hook.) Mitt.
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico Espejo near Pico Bolivar
Polylepis forest on boulder slope at 4200 m, leg 2001 Lüth 3270, det A. Schäfer-Verwimp

Zygodon pichinchensis (Tayl.) Mitt.
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico Espejo near Pico Bolivar
crevice in N-exposed rock face, 4730 m, leg 2001, Lüth 3278
Characteristic the long conical papillae.

Barttramia potosica Mont.
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico Espejo near Pico Bolivar
crevice in N-exposed rock face, 4730 m, leg Lüth 3270
Leaves stiffly erect, tipps brittle, cells at margin of leaf shoulder hyalin, delicate

Pilopogon peruvianus (Williams) Frahm
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico Bolivar, way to Bosque de Coloradito, on rocky soil, 4100 m, leg. 2001 Lüth 3262, det. J.-P. Frahm

Lobaria amplissima is extremly rare in Germany. 2020 one of the old trees died and the bark with Lobaria fall on the ground. So I took it and fixed it with binding wire on another old tree near by (without the Lobaria). Yesterday I was there and pleasantly surprised, that it worked very good.

Campylopus cuspidatus (Hornsch.) Mitt.
Venezuela, Andes, Pico el Aquila, Laguna Mucubaij, on wet ground around the lake, 3700 m, leg. 2001 Lüth 3253, det Frahm 2003

Schizymenium campylocarpum (Hook. & Arnott) Shaw
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico el Aquila, N-exp. slope at roadside, 3900 m, leg. 2001 M. Lüth 3238, det A. Schäfer-Verwimp

Campylopus argyrocaulon (Müll. Hal.) Broth.
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Picos el Aquila, Paramos, on ground between Espeletia shrubs, 4300 m, leg. 2001 M. Lüth 3233, det. J.-P. Frahm

Dicranella vaginata (Hook.) Cardot
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, way to Pico Humboldt, wet N-exposed slope, Gneis, 1900 m, leg 2001 M. Lüth 3223, det. 2021 A. Schäfer-Verwimp

Pogonatum campylocarpum (C. Müll.) Vitt
Venezuela, Merdia, cloud forest at way to Pico Humboldt, earthen slope under overhang, 2150 m, leg. Michael Lüth 3220, det. A. Schäfer-Verwimp
Marginal cells of lamellae in pairs, conical. Theeth on leaf shoulder.

Macrocoma tenue subsp. sullivantii (C. Müll.) Vitt.
Venezuela, Merdia, cloud forest at way to Pico Humboldt, on a fallen branch from high tree, 2000 m, leg. Michael Lüth 3218, det. A. Schäfer-Verwimp
Leaf sharply acute, upper margin entire, reduced peristome.

He told me, that are the cells of Sphagnum beotuk.

Ipomea tricolor indoor

This orange lichen is perhaps a Caloplaca, that grows on N-rich places. So bones would fit.

I do not know lichens very well, but I think not. Some special mosses often do it. They (most Tayloria tenuis) sometimes was used in forensic to know how long a murder victim has been lying in the forest.

More Halloween
Mosses on a quite old reindeer fallen in a rock cervice on Svalbard
Orthotrichum pylaisii (the round cushions)

Halloween-Moss
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale

Dicranella grevelliana am Tuxer Gletscher im Zillertal, 2550 m, Österreich, bei der BLAM-Exkursion. Ich habe noch nie ein so großes Vorkommen dieser Art gesehen!

Also my Evening Glory is late this year.