Image Gallery

Sphagnum skyense photographed on Barkeval, Isle of Rum by Gordon Rothero during the BBS Summer Meeting 2004

Calyptrochaeta apiculata (formerly Eriopus apiculatus) photographed on Tresco, Isles-of-Scilly, where it has almost certainly escaped from Tresco Abbey Gardens

Orthotrichum obtusifolium found growing on a poplar in the grounds of Fyvie Castle by Chris Preston during the BBS Summer Meeting 2004 in Aberdeenshire.

Tetraplodon mnioides growing on sheep bones, photographed during the BBS Summer Meeting 2003

Bryum calophyllum taken by David Holyoak

Pleuridium acuminatum taken by David Newman, found on the side of a sandy track, Oaken Wood, Barming, Maidstone Kent at the BBS South-east group meeting of 14/2/04.

Brachythecium rutabulum taken by Robert Wesley, in Sixmile Creek valley in the City of Ithaca, New York USA. UK bryologists should be aware that this plant is less common in the USA than in Europe.

Zygodon gracilis taken by Robert Goodison, in North Yorkshire, September 2003.

Myurium hochstetteri taken by Tim Rafferty in North Harris, August 2003.

Rhacocarpus purpurascens with sporophytes photographed in October 2003 in the Jonkershoek valley in the southwestern Cape of Africa

Wardia hygrometrica with sporophytes photographed in October 2003 in the Jonkershoek valley in the southwestern Cape of Africa

Aulacomnium palustre with gemmae photographed in Iceland in July 2002

Bartramia ithyphylla photographed during the BBS Summer Meeting 2003

Diphyscium foliosum photographed during the BBS Summer Meeting 2003

Small clone of Conocephalum conicum submitted by Dr. I. J. Odrzykoski

This small clone of Conocephalum conicum was collected in 1978 in a cave on the Isle of Man by E V Watson, and is mentioned in Jean Paton's "The Liverwort Flora of the British Isles" . It was sent to the laboratory of Prof. J. Szweykowski (Poznan, Poland) where it is still maintained in culture. (See I. J. Odrzykoski and J. Szweykowski., 1991. Genetic differentiation without concordant morphological divergence in the thallose liverwort Conocephalum conicum. Pl. Syst. Evol 178: 135-151.)

Cryptothallus mirabilis. Photo by Michael Lüth