Our new paper “One more word on Patagonian Ulota macrodontia: Ulota brachypoda sp. nov. (Orthotrichaceae, Bryophyta)” is just published. Another five cents to the diversity of our pet family!!
SEB BBSBryology IAB Bryology Niko #bryopride #taxonomy #bryophytes

Polytrichastrum formosum (Bank Haircap) starring in High Weald woods (and other lowland woods), this one on a path bank. #MossMonday BBSBryology

Lophozia bicrenata,growing amongst turf on a quarry floor on the Malvern Hills today BBSBryology

Lophozia Ventricosa ,growing on a bank beside a path on British camp on the Malvern Hills today BBSBryology

Scapania Compacta,on British camp today on the Malvern Hills BBSBryology

Schistostega pennata (Goblin Gold) on the inside of rabbit burrows on British camp on the Malvern Hills today BBSBryology .

Gus Routledge BBSBryology I really liked the range of umbrella mosses when there late last year, such as the Hypopterygium tamarisci (is this the one in Glasgow's Kibble palace?)

Some Aotearoa NZ bryos: Chandonanthus squarrosus, Schistochila appendiculata (longest liverwort in the world) & I think Lepidozia filamentosa from submontane temperate rainforest then some drapes of Weymouthia cochlearifolia from old-growth podocarp rainforest.

BBSBryology Riccia ciliata- a less hairy Riccia.
With a wide, grooved thallus and more discrete cilia.
The thallus in the bottom left appeared to be ungrooved and therefore likely to be Riccia sorocarpa.
Patches could have a mixture of Riccia species.

BBSBryology Really tiny Riccia cillilifera- a very, very hairy Riccia species.

BBSBryology Mannia fragrans
which was indeed fragrant.

Tortella squarrosa with pale basal marginal cells could be seen contrasting with the rest of the leaf.

The Great Hungarian Plain
Low competitive forces generated by a low nutrient-dependent alkali-halophyte community.
The amazing Entosthodon hungaricus, an obligate halophyte, with orange rims to its capsules. Patches sometimes really dense.

Börzsöny Mts, Hungary with a group from BBSBryology
The most stunning collection of thalloid liverworts on siliceous open, rocky grassland. ❤️
Oxymitrium incrassata
This shows the regularly overlapping scales.

Four lovely mosses from the bog in the Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens Deer Park (acid heath), West Sussex. A relic of the ancient royal forests of the High Weald National Landscape ridge. Sphagnum fallax; Aulacomnium palustre; Pleurozium schreberi; Ceratodon purpureus. BBSBryology. It still has deer & wallabies!

Homalothecium lutescens dominated. Grass overhung on rabbit diggings, shading tufts of fruiting Weissia angustifolia. Ctenidium molluscum found. Woodland edge, Seligeria calycina grew on chalk lumps, and Fissidens dubious and Dicranella varia/ howei on damper shaded soil.

A date for your diaries! Free Webinar: Boreal and oceanic liverwort heaths of Europe 22 May, 19.00 – 21.00 CEST, 18.00-20.00 GMT. No registration required. These fascinating liverwort communities are highly restricted and rare within Europe. For details: britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/event/webinar-…

You'll often find impressive mounds of moss growing in #ScotlandsRainforest , either on the ground, walls, rocks, or like this, on trees. This is Plagiochila spinulosa, also known as prickly featherwort.
📷 Stan Phillips

My first hornwort! Phaeoceros spp. from a garden nr Coleraine BBSBryology

Us presentem a SYNTRICHIA PAPILLOSA, una molsa acrocàrpica amb els fil·lidis amplament ovats acabats amb un nervi excurrent i els marges incurvats. El nervi està cobert de gemmes petites i irregularment globoses que li donen una aparença molt característica.