SH7129: Gelli-goch

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)

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SH6920: North & East of Coed Garth Gell

British Bryological Society

Autumn Meeting in Meirionnydd

Day1

SH6920 East of Coed Garth Gell


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Lichen Sp?

A Peltigaria Sp?

Thanks to Mark Lawley for id help.

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?

Possibly Marsupelia Sp

Thanks to Mark Lawley for id help.

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A spectacular lichen spreading up the trunk of an Oak tree.

Lobaria pulmonaria

from the

Lichen Society



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Ulotta Sp?

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Schistidium Sp?

Thanks to Mark Lawley for id help.

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Prickly Featherwort (Plagiochila spinulosa)

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Urn Haircap (Pogonatum urnigerum)

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Ulota Sp + Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)

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White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans)

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Nut-moss (Diphyscium foliosum)

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Spiral Extinguisher-moss (Encalypta streptocarpa)

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