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They could be uploaded to websites like FRDBI to aid identification. Such high-res images are pretty rare.

Lichen squamules on sandy soil.

Stacking with raw and 4-pixel shift. The images blow my mind - the process, shooting, stacking and developing from raw, is slow - - Probably not what I will be doing regularly.

Lichen people: Do you have ideas how to use such images to add value?

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Also it was good to see that the legally protected Paralecanographa grumulosa is still present on the north and east side of Winterton church. A parasite of Dirina massiliensis.

This is an amazing record if this rare fungi that is closely linked to temperate rainforest. Not before observed in the SE of Ireland!! Wow

New site record of Hymenophyllum tunbrigense for Co. Louth (H31) growing in a rocky woodland on a minor hill. Happy to find this one today. A very scarce species in the county.

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Nice. Interesting. I'm afraid I am not familiar with this species. I see Vezdaea in that sort of niche but this seems different. One for the books.

Tricky one but great documentation! Are the apothecia quite rigid or gelatinous? Could you provide a photo of the IKI reaction - is it whole asci or only the apices?

Thanks Jill!

Congrats, you're churning out some great VCRs!

I'm not sure about this one, I'm afraid. It superficially looks like Catinaria but can't be that.

You're welcome. It's on the first pic of post 2/2, I think. Would need micro in case it is primordia of the Pleostigma, but they frequently grow together on this host.

Hi Jenny. I think this is Pleostigma jungermanniicola on Scapania gracilis. Also present is a smaller black fungus, Epibryon casaresii.

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First record of large leafy liverwort Bazzania trilobata for co Derry (H40) since 1834! Also growing alongside it was Hymenophyllum tunbrigense which is a new county site too.

Ness Country Park, Co. Derry.

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This is awesome! Good luck.

I can't stand seeing those Cladonia mummies. Another frustrating one is the harvesting of large patches of Leucobryum for terraria etc. Really damaging to populations.

Sounds like an exciting find!

They do look like hamster ears.

Nice. This one was full of them. I couldn't find any normal tubers...

@bbsbryology.bsky.social do you also see these sometimes on tuber-bearing Bryaceae?

Micrograph of liverwort cells, some of which are infected with brown fungal hyphae while others are healthy and contain plastids and oil bodies.

A final micrograph for today showing mycelium of an Epibryon sp. fungus inside liverwort cells. Most cells are infected but some in the lower part of the photo are healthy, as evidenced by the absence of hyphae and the presence of oil bodies.

Definitely. They are very difficult to study using classical morphological methods, and getting DNA sequences and/or cultures would probably also be quite tricky.

A rhizoidal gall on Bryum sp. from mud in a reservoir draw-down zone. It is club-shaped and curved, containing five chytrid zoosporangia inside it, which are spherical. Some of the zoosporangia have thread-like exit tubes leading to the outside, which liberate zoospores that infect other cells.

Micrograph of a rhizoid gall caused by a chytrid on Bryum moss. The infected cell contains several zoosporangia, some of which have thread-like exit tubes that release flagellated spores. Chytrids are interesting fungi that mostly lack hyphae and have mobile spores.

B. scapaniae is closely related to B. gymnomitrii on Gymnomitrium species. Both fungi grow on the lower parts of host shoots. The larger ascomata of the latter make it slightly easier to spot. Both fungi are very rarely recorded.

A single shoot of Scapania undulata photographed against a white background. The apex is green while the brown lower parts display infection (arrowed). Bryobroma scapaniae presents as clustered black ascomata and infected tissues are covered by a dense, dark brown mycelium network.

Zoomed in on some infected leaves with dark brown, branching mycelium and black fruitbodies.

Clusters of black fruitbodies on largely leafless basal part of the plant shoot.

Great to find the fungus Bryobroma scapaniae on Scapania undulata in Bannau Brycheiniog in Wales a few days ago. I think this is the third ever record of the species, and I see how it is very easy to miss, with the dark fruitbodies disguised against the black host stem. From a rock in a stream.

Definitely seen similar drops before. Not sure if that fungus specifically, but it happens.

Hydnellum peckii can look like this, perhaps it is a place to start. Some mushrooms exude these syrup-like droplets.

An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

Cheers David!

Thanks, Jill! It was an unexpected honour and it has been amazing to see how my cohort has grown and developed over the years. Now, for the final push! @gpsep.bsky.social