Tortula Palida , a moss of saltmarsh's habitat ,here growing along the Severn Estuary forshore at Newport 26.9.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Absolutly splendid display of Grimmia montana (Sun grimmia) at a new site for it i discovered on the Llyn Peninsular in june ,nice indeed 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Plagiochila Killarniensis (Killarney featherwort) growing at the base of an Oak in Oceanic woodland in the breacon beacons a few weeks back , nice 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Absolutly magnificent bank of Bazzania trilobata hummocks in Atlantic Oak woodland along the Afon Mellte in the Breacon beacons a few weeks back @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Rhytidiadelphus subpinnatus (Scarce Turf-moss) on the edge of the Afon Mellte in the Breacon beacons a few weeks back , a very rare and scarce species in the uk,nice 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Neil Bell from @thebotanics.bsky.social talking about merging spatial distribution of bryophytes with phylogenetic proximity to give an index of phylogenetic diversity. At our AGM at the Natural History Museum, where we also had a tour of the bryophyte herbarium. Thanks @jowilbraham.bsky.social !
Riccia huebeneriana seen in great abundance at Stithians reservoir today. We recorded only a few rosettes at this site in 2023 - an increasing population?
Recorded some very nice species at the @bbsbryology.bsky.social meeting in Waterford. I had a great time learning from experts & visited some beautiful sites. Highlights of this meeting were: 1: Sphagnum skyense 2: Daltonia splachnoides 3: Bartramia ithyphylla 4: Antitrichia curtipendula
I was in N. Norfolk on Friday & early autumn produced the most exquisite day. Light was soft & colours glowed. Here was just some ordinary Pelia endiviifolia growing in a pond. A pond sited within heath, bordered by Molinia & yet with a chalky base. Just look at the jade beauty of this liverwort!
Some fantastic reservoir margin specialists seen at Clatworthy Reservoir yesterday with @wessexbryology.bsky.social. Physcomitrium readeri must have colonised Clatworthy in the last couple of decades; it is already known in its millions at nearby Wimbleball Reservoir. @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Fissidens asplenioides Hedw. Venezuela, caribic coastal mountains, way to P. Codazzi, cloud forest above Colonia Tovar, 1900 m, on soil at shadow slope, leg. M. Lüth 3383, March 2001, det. A. Schäfer-Verwimp Charakteristik are the small teeth on the whole leaef margin and the dry leaves are curled.
Fissidens polypodioides Hedw. Venezuela, caribic coastal mountains, way to Pico Codazzi, cloud forest above Colonia Tovar, 1900 m, on soil at shadow slope, leg. M. Lüth 3383, March 2001, det. Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp Charakteristik are the mainly smooth margin and the dry leaves are flexuose.
If you are in south east England and interested in #bryophytes, do come along to our field meetings. We are in the process of putting the programme together: sussexbryophytes.wordpress.com/bbs-se-group/ This was where we went earlier in the year: sussexbryophytes.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/r...
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BBS SE Group Field Meeting, 16 May 2026 Nestling up near the Surrey border, the tetrad TQ03W is in a notably under-recorded part of West Sussex, and we have been attempting to fill the gap to some …
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Sadly Jean Paton has died (10 August 2026). Botanist, bryologist & botanical illustrator. Her The Liverwort Flora of the British Isles is superb, in terms of bryological knowledge & beautiful illustrations; here's Trichocolea tomentella, Handsome Woolywort @bbsbryology.bsky.social photo: Napp Wood.
Lovely to be back in Ireland this time in Co Waterford for another brilliant @bbsbryology.bsky.social meeting. Thanks so much to @joannedenyer.bsky.social and Rory Hodd.
Just back from the @bbsbryology.bsky.social meeting in Co. Waterford. Great fun and some fabulous species seen including a new moss for Ireland (the rare Dialytrichia saxicola) and new sites for Sphagnum skyense. Thank you @joannedenyer.bsky.social and Rory Hodd for organising a brilliant week!
I thought these ponds were meant to be boring today! A massive patch of enormous Glaucous Crystalwort Riccia glauca rosettes on the drawdown at Dagnam Park, NE London.
Interesting to find the moss Polytrichum strictum growing in good quantity on logs today, in open woodland in West Lothian, Scotland. An unusual habitat for this species, which is normally found on wet ground, especially in bogs.
Plagiochila spinulosa, Saccogyna viticulosa, Dicranum majus and Frullania tamarisci - all staples of Irish temperate rainforest. Hymenophyllum wilsonii also present which is a new Hectad record! I was told about some nice graphidion lichens here but I didn’t see them. Did find Sticta sp.
Aneura pinguis (Greasewort) grpwing on a steep wet bank in the humis Nant y Gwyddyl gorge 1.8.26 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Hookeria acutifolia Hook. & Grev. Venezuela, caribic coastal mountains, way to Pico Codazzi, cloud forest above Colonia Tovar, 1900 m, on soil at shadow slope, leg. M. Lüth 3383, March 2001
Potentially Sphagnum divinum growing in a very nice and quaking bog in Coolvoy bog SAC, Donegal. Can't say I am certain as I find the field characteristics tricky but based on pore sizes in the branch leaves I would place my bet on S. divinum
A delightfully lyrical account of bryologising in a heatwave by Sue Rubinstein #bryology #bryophytes @bbsbryology.bsky.social sussexbryophytes.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/g...
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Still hot and sunny between heatwaves, the shade of trees and a high wall in the parking area by The Holy Sepulchre Church in Warminghurst was welcome. I recorded Metzgeria furcata, Rhynchostegiell…
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Now on the list for Britain and Ireland, although the only material I have seen didn't have such large teeth.
Michael Lueth@milueth.bsky.social · 2mo agoBryoerythrophyllum campylocarpum (thanks to J. Munoz for det.). Remarkable are the single big teeth at the upper leaf margin. It grows on soil beside a path in a cloudforest in 2000m alt. in Venezuela near Colonia Tovar. I unfortunately have no fieldpicture.
Marchantia polymorpha subsp.Polymorpha (star-headed Liverwort) growing on the edge of the afon wysyg 19.7.26 ,love that broad conspicuous black midrib 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Haplomitrium hookeri (Hooker's Flapwort) growing on the edge of the afon Wysg 19.7.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
I have visited Century bank on the river Tees in the Pennines a few times and have also visited this bank on the Afon Wysg three times , i have named in Blasia bank as it is absolutly covered in it from end to end , Blaisia pusilla (Common Kettlewort) at its best 19.7.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Ptychomitrium polyphyllum (Greater Pincushion) growing on a boulder top on Tarron yr Esgob 5.7.26 , the long straight Peristome teeth looking good @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Riccardia chamedryfolia (Jagged Germanderwort) growing on a small wooded stream on the lower slopes of Craig Cywarch in North wales 12.6.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Racomitrium aquaticum (Narrow-leaved Fringe-moss) growing on a periodicaly irigated vertical crag on CraigBuarth-glas in north wales a few weeks ago ,love those Peristome teeth in the first pic 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social