Image Gallery - page 5

Pallavicinia lyellii (Hook.) Carruth.

Pallavicinia lyelli, 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.

Barbilophozia attenuata

Barbilophozia attenuata is a plant characteristic of rotting wood and peaty soils , especially in the north and west.

Moerkia flotowiana

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.

Dichodontium palustre (Dicks.) Stech

Growing on gravelly detritus beside a stream near Grasmere in the Lake District.

Antitrichia curtipendula (Hedw.) Brid.

On a typical upland boulder habitat on Pen y Ghent, photographed during the Spring BBS meeting to the Yorkshire Dales.

Pogonatum aloides (Hedw.) P.Beauv.

Photographed by Maurice Eakin on clay of upturned tree root at Littlewood Forest, Slane, Co. Meath

Plagiopus oderianus (Sw.) H.A.Crum & L.E.Anderson

On a rock ledge on Pen y Ghent, photographed during the Spring BBS meeting to the Yorkshire Dales.

Plagiochila norvegica H.H.Blom & Holten

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.

Marchantia polymorpha ssp. ruderalis Bischl. & Boisselier

Marchantia polymorpha ssp. ruderalis on churchyard path, Westonbirt, Gloucestershire. Photographed by Peter Martin.

Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt.

Nowellia curvifolia growing on its typical habitat of a decorticated log at Bouther Gill in the Yorkshire Dales during the 2011 BBS spring field meeting, photographed by Jo Denyer.

Encalypta rhaptocarpa Schwägr.

We were delighted to have the company of Michael Lüth on the BBS Spring Meeting 2011 to the Yorkshire Dales. He photographed Encalypta rhaptocarpa (sometimes known in continental Europe as Encalypta trachymitra) on a rock ledge at Pen-y-Ghent. More photographs from then meeting can be seen on his blog http://www.milueth.tk/ which contains wonderful photographs of bryophytes in their natural landscape. Thanks to Michael for permission to reproduce the image.

Grimmia trichophylla Grev.

Cushions of Grimmia trichophylla, growing on sandstone on the Black Hill, Herefordshire.

Hedwigia integrifolia P.Beauv.

Hedwigia integrifolia, photographed by Maurice Eakin on the gabbro boulders of the Cooley Mountains, Co Louth

A substantial robust population of Sphagnum riparium was found in a pool in otherwise uninspiring high moorland on the northern side of Ben Wyvis during the BBS Summer Meeting in July 2010, and photographed by Sharon Pilkington.

A large flat patch of Grimmia orbicularis grows next to  the neat cushion of Grimmia pulvinata.  The G. orbicularis produced 2 capsules in 2008 and 3 in 2009 but is now getting up a head of steam (Nov. 2010) - particularly nearest to the G. pulvinata cushion where the 2008/9 capsules were also seen.  On church boudary wall, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Peter Martin

Pseudobryum cinclidoides Photographed by Howard Wallis on northern slopes of The Cairnwell (Glen Shee), v.c. 92

Bazzania tricrenata, quite frequent growing alongside Plagiochila carringtonii and other species of the northern hepatic mat in montane grassland between north and east-facing crags above Loch Coire a Mhuillinn, Strathconan. Photographed during the BBS Summer Meeting, July 2010. Sharon Pilkington.

A 50cm tall mound of Polytichum strictum in a blanket bog at Torver High Common, Westmorland.

Cratoneuron filicinum, photographed here by Maurice Eakin, is rarely found with capsules

Grimmia incurva, growing on Titterstone Clee Hill, v.-c. 45, photographed by Des Callaghan.

Grimmia pulvinata, a common and abundant moss of rocks and walls, photographed fruiting copiously by Caroline Pannell at Heydour Church, South Lincolnshire, on the BBS 2010 Spring meeting.

Syntrichia ruralis var. ruraliformis photographed by Maurice Eakin at Bull Island, Dublin, Ireland.