Day 6: Monte de Las Mercedas, Pista de las Hiedras

This area of Laurus/Erica/Prunus forest is lower and drier than the areas visited on day 3, although there are some moist gullies along the Pista de Hiedras. The first four images are of plants seen at a locality known as Llanos de los Viejos.

Homalia lusitanica Schimp.

 

Lejeunea canariensis (Steph.) Steph.

Lejeunea flava (Sw.) Nees

 

Phaeoceros bulbiculosus (Brot.) Prosk.

Pista de las Hiedras

 

Asterella africana (Mont.) A.Evans.

 

Corsinia coriandrina (Spreng.) Lindb.

 

Jubula hutchinsiae Dumort.

 

Plagiochila dubia Lindenb. et Gottsche

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