EHNS Bryology workshop weekend - a taster

A good-sized group of bryologists from expert to budding (do bryologists bud?) got together at Vogrie Country Park this weekend. More to come later, but here's a taster...

A new species for me, this Dicranum tauricum, propagating vegetatively by means of detaching leaf tips (like Didymodon sinuosus)

Experimenting with mobile phone/LED loupe photography

Orthotrichum diaphenum, with hair points

Orthotrichum stramineum, with "chocolate tip" (which to my eyes looks red, but what do I know)

Cratoneuron filicinum, with tomentum

Barbula sardoa, with wavy edges

Didymodon insulanus at Cullaloe

Trying to pick up photos of a few spp at Cullaloe that I don't have pictures of I came across this species and duly took pics and samples. Later I discovered that it hadn't been recorded. At home I had a brief wobble that it might be vinealis, but on drying it came out looking good.


Didymodon insulanus, Cylindric Beard-moss

BBS Field Guide page

18/02/2014

The drying process...

And another example I made earlier:

Water of Leith recording meet, 16-02-2014, Spylaw

A beautiful sunny day along the Water of Leith, covering territory in 3 tetrads. Numbers of bryophytes found were fairly low (c.60 I think), but with some new ones for me, and some interesting ones thrown in.

Coverage:

"Action" shots:

 

Three Didymodon species from the day:

D.sinuosus - vegetative propagation by broken leaf tips

D.rigidulus versus D.insulanus

Brachythecium velutinum:

Mnium stellare:

Plagiomnium rostratum

Hiding amidst Lophocolea bidentata at the base of a wall, Cullaloe LNR. Having discovered a Plagiomnium type at Carlingnose NR, this one got a grilling - individual unicellular leaves along the whole margin, no sign of "oblong" aspect ratio cells, and not really much hint of a diagonal due to the near-uniform cell shape.

Mnium hornum development

Full of the joys of spring, Mnium hornum sporophytes are growing in the woods at Cullaloe. Three stages of development are visible at the moment (probably more, but in these photos only 3). All are from 11 feb 2014.

Spears as setae reach their summit

Fish-hook farm as the seta curve at the top

Growing capsules

Gallery I-L

Kindbergia praelonga

Leptodictyum riparium, Kneiff's Feather-moss

Leptodontium flexifolium

Nestled in the top of a rotting wooden fencepost at Wanlockhead, August 2015. On first impressions like a Barbula, but outer leaf broader and toothed are key clues to its identity.

Lophocolea bidentata, Biphid Crestwort

L. bidentata is delicate and translucent, pale green, with conspicuously bilobed leaves (about 2 mm long). Shoots are 2–4 mm wide, and may grow several centimetres long. Its leaf lobes are long and drawn out into a narrow point. The underleaves are also bilobed, with an additional lateral tooth on each side. It is strongly aromatic, and often fertile, with toothed perianths (BBS Field Guide).

18/11/2013

19/11/2013

underside

underside close-up

overlapping leaves