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Common Pocket-moss (Fissidens taxifolius)



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Scapania Sp

Water Earwort (Scapania undulate)?




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Scapania Sp?

This pone has some clear pointed edges to the leaves.

Grove Earwort possibly (Scapania nemorosa)?



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Barbiloza Sp?



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Fountain Smoothcap (Atrichum crispum)




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Kettlewort (Blasia pusilla)



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Greater Whipwort (Bazzania triolbata)



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Creeping Fingerwort (Lepidozia reptans)



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Crenellated Flapwort (Jungermannia gracillimum)



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Mylia Sp?

Anomalous Flapwort (Mylia anomala) perhaps?



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Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata)



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Frillwort Sp (Fossombronia Sp)

Mark Lawley identified a similar one from this spot as Frossombronia wondraczeckii

Tags: FrillwortSp, ScapaniaSp, BifidCrestwort, CommonPocket-moss, CreepingFingerwort, FountainSmoothcap, Kettlewort, CrenulatedFlapwort

British Bryological Society

Autumn Meeting in Meirionnydd

Day 5

SH7129 Gelli-goch



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Spiral Extinguisher-moss (Encalypta streptocarpa)



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Harvestmen Sp?





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Filmy Fern Sp?



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Fissidens Sp?



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Greater Water-moss (Fontinalis anitpyretica) Found in the stream pictured above.



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Pellia Sp?



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Prickly Featherwort (Plagiochila spinulosa)



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Yellow Fringe-moss (Racomitrum aciculare)



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The coarsely toothed hair points looking very like part of a Mandelbrot set.

Woolly Fringe-moss (Racomitrum lanuginosum)



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Rustyback Fern (Cetarach officinarum)



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Thickpoint Grimmia (Schistidium crassipilum)

Possible a Racomitrum?

Thanks to Mark Lawley for id help.



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Flagellate Feather-moss (Hyocomium armoricum)



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Holt's Mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium holtii)



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Lichen Sp

Possibly a Dermatocarpon Lichen or similar.



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Frizzled Pincushion (Ulota phyllantha)



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Sphagnum Sp?



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Sphagnum Sp?



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Ladder Flapwort (Nardia scalars with a Two- horned Pincerwort Cepholozia bicuspidata in the bottom left hand corner.



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Two-horned Pincerwort (Cephalozia bicuspidata)



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Serrated Earth-moss (Ephemerum serratum) nestled in a bed of a Frillwort Sp (Frossombronia Sp)

Not quite

Actually Delicate Earth-moss (Pseudephemerum nitidum) nestled in a bed of a Frillwort Sp (Frossombronia Sp)

Thanks to Mark Lawley for id help.



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In this picture you can clearly see the cells in the middle of the leaf are very different from the rest. Rather like a tower block of elongated cells running to halfway up the leaf.

These appear colourless under a hand lens in the field.

White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans)

Tags: SpiralExtinguisher-moss, HarvestmenSp, GreaterWater-moss, WhiteEarwort, FrillwortSp, DelicateEarth-moss, LadderFlapwort, Two-hornedPincerwort, SphagnumSp, FrizzledPincushion, Holt'sMouse-tailMoss, FlagellateFeather-moss, ThickpointGrimmia, RustybackFern, WoollyFringe-moss, YellowFringe-moss, PricklyFeatherwort