Day 3: Sierra de Anaga

These mountains in the NE of the island remain moist because of the low cloud. Their laurel forests are rich in epiphytes and epiphylls.

Anaga mountains

 

Campylopus pilifer Brid.

 

Exomortheca pustulosa Mitt.

 

Laurel Forest

 

Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.

 

epiphyllous Colura calyptrifolia (Hook.) Dumort

 

epiphyllous Drepanolejeunea hamatifolia (Hook.) Schiffn

Fissidens serrulatus Brid.

 

Leucodon canariensis (Brid.) Schwaegr.

 

Myurium hochstetteri (Schimp.) Kindb.

 

Neckera intermedia Brid.

 

Radula jonesii Bouman et al.

 

Tetrastichium fontanum (Mitt.) Card.

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