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Showing posts with label #bryum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #bryum. Show all posts
Friday, 12 December 2014
Bryum dichotomum from Carlingnose Point
In a typical location on some very open ground bordering the entrance to the reserve and the end of the road. Note the leaf axil bulbils in the lower photo
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Double vision
Two nice new byrophytes - Bryum radiculosum and Riccia sorocarpa. Both of them were new to me on Sunday and both new to Carlingnose Point on Monday!
Having been first introduced to the Riccia by LK beside the path on Sunday in Peeblesshire I was aware of the existence of this liverwort and its likely location, but it was the Bryum that made it happen. DL showed us it on Sunday and so I knew it was both under-recorded and mortar-loving. I had in my mind a location with lots of old mortar which I headed for on Monday lunchtime with immediate success. It took me no more than a minute to find what I was looking for. This is the benefit of spending time in the field with people who know what they're doing! Neither species had been recorded in NT18 before (according to NBN - let's see what the atlas says). Close inspection of both specimens revealed only somewhat disappointing tubers. they were there, but smallish and not very interesting. 80um was the biggest I could find (which was from the Fife sample). You can see a couple clinging to the stem of the Peeblesshire specimen below. Maybe I need to dig a bit deeper and wash carefully.
"Radiculose": producing many rootlets
Peebles:
Fife:
and the current NBN map for the Bryum ...
(details from VC85, or close enough:
Easter Muirhead, NS99, 1978 - DL
Glenfarg, NO11, 1977 - DL
N. of Kinghorn,NT2787, 01/04/2011 - LK/DC)
Having been first introduced to the Riccia by LK beside the path on Sunday in Peeblesshire I was aware of the existence of this liverwort and its likely location, but it was the Bryum that made it happen. DL showed us it on Sunday and so I knew it was both under-recorded and mortar-loving. I had in my mind a location with lots of old mortar which I headed for on Monday lunchtime with immediate success. It took me no more than a minute to find what I was looking for. This is the benefit of spending time in the field with people who know what they're doing! Neither species had been recorded in NT18 before (according to NBN - let's see what the atlas says). Close inspection of both specimens revealed only somewhat disappointing tubers. they were there, but smallish and not very interesting. 80um was the biggest I could find (which was from the Fife sample). You can see a couple clinging to the stem of the Peeblesshire specimen below. Maybe I need to dig a bit deeper and wash carefully.
"Radiculose": producing many rootlets
Peebles:
Fife:
and the current NBN map for the Bryum ...
(details from VC85, or close enough:
Easter Muirhead, NS99, 1978 - DL
Glenfarg, NO11, 1977 - DL
N. of Kinghorn,NT2787, 01/04/2011 - LK/DC)
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Carlingnose
Nice Racomitrium fasciculare and Warnstofria fluitans pair at Carlingnose point. Behind the same rock was this surprise Bryum pseudotriquetrum
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| R.fasciculare and W.fluitans |
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| B.pseudtriquetrum |
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Bryum pseudotriquetrum from Cullaloe LNR
A few pics from the vaults - well, from 1st March anyway. The last two were in the bundle when it got to the slide. I can't be absolutely sure whether it relates to this plant or not, or even what it is exactly. Looks too complex for protonema.
Bryum pseudotriquetrum
Bryum pseudotriquetrum
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