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Mosses and ferns
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Enjoying learning about mosses and ferns, liverworts, hornworts…
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naturenorfolk.bsky.social
Small Moss Oysterling I think… #norfolk #fungi #fungifriend
February 7, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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dariuskos.bsky.social
Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)
January 27, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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mattrjones.bsky.social
Marsh Flapwort (Biantheridion undulifolium) creeping through Sphagnum. Only a handful of known British sites for this wonderful liverwort.
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February 7, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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mattrjones.bsky.social
Rose Moss (Rhodobryum roseum) looking as stunning as usual in Shropshire today 😍
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February 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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andymurdock.bsky.social
Currently planning a trip to Malaysia, so here’s a #fernfriday memory from the last time I was there – Matonia pectinata in the Cameron Highlands
Young fern frond unfurling
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Look at the fancy pants (spore capsule coverings) on these Mannia sp #liverworts! Northwest Territories, Canada. #bryophyte #botany #fungifriends
Photo of green coloured liverwort reproductive structures on thin black stalks. Dark spore capsules are partly visible and they are covered in light green, lace-like structures. Photo of a dozen or more liverwort reproductive structures. They look like small green hoods on long, thin, black stalks.
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Liverwort, Athalamia hyalina. They always look angry.
#liverwort #bryophyte #fungifriends
NWT, Canada.
Photo of liverwort reproductive structures. Five light green stalks rise from dark green pieces of liverwort thallus/body. At the top of the stalks are light green capsules holding round, brown spore capsules that kind of look like eyes.
December 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha. The female reproductive structures in the photo are about 3cm high. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#liverwort #bryophyte #botany #fungifriends
Photo of the female reproductive structures of liverwort M. polymorpha. They look like tiny, green palm trees…a forest of them.
December 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Well, this explains where he gets (harvests) his hair from.

Polytrichum moss (common name haircap moss) spore capsules. When the spore capsules are fully mature, the protective ”hair cap” falls off. Newfoundland, Canada.
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends
Photo of green spore capsules on long stalks. The capsules have a yellow hair covering that looks like Donald Trump hair.
December 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Mosses love to decorate with slime molds. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#slime #fungifriends #myxo #moss #bryophyte #botany
Close up photo of a moss plant that appears to be decorated like a tree, with black bulbs (slime mold sporangia)
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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simonhco.bsky.social
Currently reading "Gathering Moss" by Robin Wall Kimmerer. She explains how there's very little air movement in the thin layer where mosses live so they have to send their sporophytes a few milllimeters higher to catch the breeze.

Buntzen Lake, BC.

#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends 🌿
A single green sporophte pokes above the moss.
December 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Sphagnum moss spore capsules/sporophytes. NWT, Canada.
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends
Photo of Sphagnum moss spore capsules. The capsules look a bit like match stick heads on elegant green stalks.
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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noodlyscientist.bsky.social
More images from @pacifiplankton.bsky.social this time of hornwort spores! These start off as a tetrad and break apart. Thinking these belong to Paraphymatoceros pearsonii, also growing on the Stanford campus. @diatomsattack.bsky.social @sfmicrosociety.org
a single spore with a tri-radiate ridge on the proximal surface. SEM image of 3 hornwort spores. Tri-radiate ridge on the proximal surface and ~10 lumps on the distal side. Hornwort spores still in a tetrad. Can see lumps on the distal side. A twisted psuedoelators can be seen close by and on top of the spores.
October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Large-scale #hornwort plastomes unlock RNA editing, new species, and diversification history.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Xu et al.

@WileyPlantSci
Paraphymatoceros luguhuensis.
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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wilde-eep.bsky.social
A very tiny fungus - Stenocybe nitida growing on a rather small liverwort - Plagiochila punctata.
#stenocybe #plagiochila #fungi #liverworts #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
Close up photo of Stenocybe nitida - tiny, black tube-like fungi growing on a liverwort. The scale at the bottom indicates they are about 2mm tall. a dense mat of Plagiochila punctata with a few Stenocybe nitida fruiting bodies growing through it An oak trunk with lichens and liverworts growing up it. Some of the fine yellowish cushions near the middle are Plagiochila punctata, I think.
September 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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dmac00.bsky.social
First record of oceanic liverwort Plagiochila bifaria for co. Armagh (VC H37) from near St Moninna’s Well, Sliabh gCuillinn

Hanging out above a rock face with a small waterfall below some rowans. Associates included Metzgeria conjugata.

#bryophytes #bryology #ireland #liverwort
September 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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taraseverns.bsky.social
Common Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha), introduced, with gemmae-filled gemma cups releasing tiny clone plants in a droplet of water to grow into new clone plants. Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A close up of a plant showing cup-like structures filled with tiny, lentil-shaped green gemma, some of which are floating away in a drop of water.
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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noodlyscientist.bsky.social
Check out these awesome scanning electron microscopy images of some bottle liverwort (Sphaerocarpos cristatus) spores that I collected on Stanford campus! Taken by @pacifiplankton.bsky.social 🤩 in the lab of @diatomsattack.bsky.social. Thanks so much! @sfmicrosociety.org
Spores clustered inside an erupted capsule. They are single spherical spores with parallel ridges. Close-up of spores, which are single, spherical spores with parallel ridges. close up of a single spore, you can see the parallel ridges meeting at a radial point
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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dmac00.bsky.social
To round up my year of biological recording, here are my favourite finds from each month of 2025!

January - Jubula hutchinsiae

I re-found this colony recorded in 2004 in the Glen Stream, co. Down. A v interesting & unmistakable oceanic liverwort of humid wooded stream valleys
December 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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dmac00.bsky.social
First record of large leafy liverwort Bazzania trilobata for co Derry (H40) since 1834! Also growing alongside it was Hymenophyllum tunbrigense which is a new county site too.

Ness Country Park, Co. Derry.

@bsbiireland.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social

#bryophytes #ferns #botany
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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dmac00.bsky.social
November - Bazzania trilobata

This was a lovely large liverwort of humid woodland to find for the first time and marks the best find for November. Ness Country Park in Derry was really productive for temperate rainforest species and will be worth returning to.
December 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social
Two #bryophytes: a moss (Hypnum cupressiforme) and a liverwort (Radula complanata). Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
September 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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bobcatbrad.bsky.social
Fuscocephaloziopsis that I found after dropping my phone in the bog. Phones seem to really like finding wet hollows on the bog mat, mine is a magnet for Odontoschisma fluitans, Blepharostoma trichophyllum, and Fuscocephaloziopsis.
Microscope photo of Fuscocephaloziopsis, a very small liverwort with its buddy Blepharostoma, an even smaller liverwort, next to it. Microscope photo of the leaves of Fuscocephaloziopsis. They have “two acute to acuminate lobes separated by a rounded apical notch” which makes em look like a wonky pac-man or a funky claw or maybe even a weird dinosaur Perianth and stem of Fuscocephaloziopsis
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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mattdell.bsky.social
Lepicolea scolopendra, a leafy liverwort from cold, mesic habitats, including amongst snow. The type collection in 1791 required the circumscription of Lepicoleaceae. It has upright and pendent forms; which has confused authors over the years. #liverwort #bryophytes #AustralianFlora #TasFlora
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Liverwort Athalamia hyalina, looking like the advance party for a goofy alien invasion. The liverwort structures are about 1cm high. #liverwort #bryophyte #fungifriends
Photo of liverwort sporophytes. They look like goofy little aliens with green necks, green hoods and single brown eyes peeking out from the hoods.
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM