Camplyopus flexuosus, Cullaloe Hills, 3rd January

Super-inflated alar cells abut the wide central nerve. Typical Campylopus toothed leaf tip.

Trichodon cylindricus in Cullaloe Hills fields

In muddy field edge, Cullaloe Hills

habitus

tubers

leaf tip

Lophocolea semiteres in Cullaloe Hills, Fife

New to Fife and VC85, this liverwort was growing in the conifer plantation at NT1888 on 3rd January

Campylopus introflexus leaf section

Showing the one cell high ridges on the dorsal side of the leaf and the hyalocysts (empty cells) on the ventral side of the costa

Campylopus introflexus

Fossombronia pusilla, Dalgety Bay, Fife

Been a while since I posted anything to here but since I just came across one of my favourite liverworts I feel like I should.

Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, 22/10/16

A recording outing to Blackford Hill / Hermitage of Braid had the usual handful of new species to the mass of species you come across regularly. This Grimmia lisae had to be taken home to be confirmed while the Syntrichia intermedia was also nice. Even nicer was Syntrichia papillosa which I was too full of lunch to remember to photograph apparently.

Grimmia lisae - confirmed by leaf section

Syntrichia intermedia

Learning to love the Sphagnales, IV - S.papillosum versus S.palustre

S.papillosum versus S.palustre from IFLI field day at West Moss, Fallin.

These are both big, blousy species in the section Sphagnum. The papillosum on the left here shows the stubby sausage branches, though I think it may not always be so simple