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

ENCALYPTA STREPTOCARPA amb gemmes de reproducció vegetativa, agrupades a l'axil·la dels fil·lidis. Amb el microscopi podem veure la seva típica forma filiforme. #briòfits #molses

Cool to find some big healthy cushions of Lepidozia cupressina at a site in Gwynedd, where it doesn't seem to have been recorded before. Good news for one of our less common temperate rainforest liverworts in Wales, as it has declined dramatically at some nearby sites @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Clevea hyalina

Schistidium atrofuscum

On Saturday the @bbsbryology.bsky.social NE Scotland group had a great outing to Creag a' Chlamhain at Crathie where we (re)found a good range of unusual species including Clevea hyalina and Schistidium atrofuscum

Nicely coloured Sphagnum girgensohnii and russowii/rubellum #moss #bryophyte

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.

Bryum bornholmense - a tuberous Bryum of heathy soils, in this case Odiham Common, N Hants. Tubers are amber coloured in incident light, and translucent with thin cell walls and barely protuberant cells in transmitted light. Has strong leaf margins with border cell walls approx 3 microns.

Thuidium assimile from a fixed dune relevé at Dogs Bay, Conamara. Last recorded in H16 in 1966 (& perhaps 68). First time I have come across (knowingly) the species

T. assimile ag fás sa dumhcha socra in san Iorras beag thiar. Suíomh nua don speiceas agus an chéad cuntas dhó le haghaidh píosa fada

First record of Daltonia splachnoides for Co. Armagh (H37) from plantation on Camlough Mountain. Epiphytic on willow, associates were Lejeunea patens & Metzgeria consanguinea. Algal gloop a big issue though.

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#bryophytes #moss #Ireland

Riccia fruitans in the middle of one of the weird human-made "mirror" pools at the top of the "gorge" in Chelwood Vachery, Ashdown Forest, High Weald, East Sussex. Had to use telephoto lens so hard to get a good look. Best liverwort spot for some time for me.

Today the BBS Southern Group spent a rather wet day at Odiham Common, N Hants, including the abandoned clay pits dug for brick making. Interesting plants included Platygyrium repens, Pleuridium sp., and the aquatic liverwort Ricciocarpos natans on the Basingstoke Canal.

LOPHOZIA cf. BANTRIENSIS i LOPHOZIA TURBINATA, creixent mesclades en un talús humit prop de Santa Cecília de Montserrat. #briòfits #hepàtiques

Screen grab showing International Space Station above a blue-cloudy Earth.

🌾🌱⚘️🌿🌼🦠🚀 #BUC2026 Impressive survival of moss spores, Physcomitrella patens (spreading earthmoss) on outside of International Space Station for 9 months! Vacuum, radiation, dry, too much light, cold. Over 80% germinated when back on Earth. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Sphagnum pulchrum, fallax and maybe papillosum #moss #bryophyte

RICCIA LAMELLOSA, una de les hepàtiques que veurem el proper dissabte al Bosc de la Marquesa. @brioli-ichn.bsky.social #briòfits #molses #hepàtiques #líquens

YouTube video by MOSS-ACT=コケ観察を愛するチャンネル= その存在は幻かカゲロウか。世界最小の苔を追う。

Arable bryology amongst the rice paddy fields of Japan. Some fantastic species in this great little video.
youtu.be/X2vRmoruWr8

Delighted that a rabbit burrow at Broughton Sanctuary, Skipton, produced 2 nice finds (6/11/25):
Schistostega pennata - Goblin Gold; with highly reflective protonema, shoots with leaves in 2 ranks and long leaf insertions
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A confirmed sample of Trichostomum littorale growing in a short sward upland grassland around 500m with Thalictrum alpinum etc. - Leic na bhfearr, Conamara. Possibly new to the county (since T.brachydontium recent split into 3 species). It was the dominant moss here but midges prevent a full relevé

The leaves of the moss Dicranodontium denudatum break off easily and act as vegetative propagules. They are very "sticky" too, at least when wet. Was perhaps an even more efficient method of dispersal when more large animals like deer, boar, and moose roamed our woodlands. @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Sphagnum angermanicum #moss #bryophyte

A new site for Neckera pumila from willow on edge of Gortin Lakes, co. Tyrone

This colony was particularly robust

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Trees covered in the hyperoceanic liverworts Plagiochila spinulosa (left) and Scapania gracilis (right) in the temperate rainforest at Coed Hafod-y-Llyn, Gwynedd. @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Neckera crispa growing as an epiphyte in a hazel temperate rainforest north of Cuilcagh, Co. Fermanagh.

Other niceties include Ctenidium molluscum and Breutelia chrysocoma

I finally fulfilled my ambition to visit the famous Saihōji Moss Temple in Kyoto. The mosses were looking their best in the pouring rain. For once I had to resist studying them, and simply submit to their beauty.

The difference between habitat in the south (where I live) & the north is fascinating. Sphagnum palustre in Sussex is found in bogs & wet flushes with a supply of water from springs or streams. In Borrowdale, it is also at the top of this rocky mound; in the south, it doesn't rain enough for that.

Cummacatta Wood, just north of the Bowder Stone, has a wet flush with the gloriously red Sphagnum capillifolium (rare in Sussex) plus gone-over Bog Asphodel. It also has Juniper as well as Yew. First Juniper I've seen in Borrowdale; saw lots around Arnside on Limestone

Sphagnum majus and medium #moss #bryophyte

I want one of those

Kjell Ivar Flatberg, a very kind looking older man, holds out a small clump of Sphagnum moss while wearing a very, very cool knit hat.

Flatberg inspects moss with a hand lens, showing off the patterns on his hat. They are made to look like leaf cells of Sphagnum including large hyaline cells with pores and chlorophyllose cells between.

Microscope photo of the branch leaf of Sphagnum girgensohnii, the pattern is similar to the knit hat.

Multiple Sphagnum branch leafs featuring the same patterns.

Was looking at some stuff about Sphagnum expert Kjell Ivar Flatberg and saw something extraordinary. The patterns on his hat looked…familiar, they’re Sphagnum leaf cells!

Well done Billy. These street trees can have a surprisingly rich nitrogen tolerant/dependent epiphyte flora.