Yesterday I was with the Cambs Bryologists at the Devil's Dyke, an Anglo-Saxon causeway of chalk, sometimes reaching 10 m in height next to a deep ditch.
It supports chalk grassland CG3/CG5, with CG5 occupying a holding position between grassland & scrub.
Rhynchostegium megapolitanum- path edges

Das Mecklenburgische Schbabeldeckelmoos (Rhynchostegium
Megapolitanum) ist Moos des Jahres 2026

Aber das wusstet Ihr natürlich schon.

Die Pazifische Leuchterflechte, Candelaria pacifica, und das Mecklenburgische Schnabeldeckelmoos, Rhynchostegium megapolitanum, sind Flechte und Moos des Jahres 2026.

An occasion where the substrate is rarer than the moss. Bryum capillare and Rhynchostegium confertum on a rural Sussex phone box

#bryophytes

"Die Bryologisch-Lichenologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mitteleuropa und der Naturschutzbund erwählten das Wärmeliebende Schnabeldeckelmoos (Rhynchostegium megapolitanum) zum Moos-, und die Pazifische Leuchterflechte (Candelaria pacifica) zur Flechte des Jahres."
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

This lovely veteran beech was at the foot of scarp-slope ancient woodland on Chanctonbury Hill SSSI; on the side of the Wiston Bostal. Its roots were covered in Arthonia radiata, Asterisk Lichen; Dicranoweisia cirrata, Common Pincushion; Rhynchostegium confertum Clustered Feather-Moss. #lichen #moss

Rhynchostegium aquaticum A. Jaeger
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Monte Zerpa, 2080 m, cloud forest, on stones in a small stream with fast flowing water, leg. 11.03.2001 M. Lüth, det. A. Schäfer-Verwimp

Maybe the second moss is Rhynchostegium riparioides?

Correcting my own classification, suspect this looks more like a Rhynchostegium more-so now but there are better moss experts in this world than I who would know for certain.

A symmetrical pattern, well almost; with Clustered feather-moss (Rhynchostegium confertum) and Winter heliotrope (Petasites fragrant). Wall top, Truro.

Here, was found Pelia endiviifolia and much Fissidens taxifolius. In the water, Crataneuron filicinum, and Rhynchostegium riparioides.
Muddy bank with minute shoots of Pohlia melanodon and a Vaucheria species was just visible.

Poorly grown Rhynchostegium riparioides on silty rock in the river. The bases of the Ash trees dripped with Homalia trichomanoides.
Heading uphill through the Ash woodland.
On the base of Ash there was frequently Scapania aspera, a calcicole. The underlobe extends a long way along the stem.

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Steerecleus Moss
(Rhynchotegium serrulatum)
Sam Houston National Forest, TX

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Over to the "Chinese Bridge" where each bridge finial seemed to have a different covering, in this case Dicranoweisia cirrata. The weir below with damp walls covered in Cirriphyllum crassinervium, and wthin the water, a sheet of Rhynchostegium riparioides.

Rhynchostegium megapolitanum.

Nice to find Rhynchostegium megapolitanum,amongst Low scrub on the steep slopes of Brean down in Somerset last Saturday.

Wall Feather-moss (Rhynchostegium murale) growing on a silt encrusted tree trunk on the edge of the river teme last Sunday.

Teesdale Feather-moss (Rhynchostegium teneriffae) at Osebury Rock in Worcestershire last Sunday.