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Enjoying learning about mosses and ferns, liverworts, hornworts… Devon

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jane phượng, Ph.D (she/her) Ngunnawal Country @janephuong.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
#TextureTuesday
Green moss on the ground.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Chatsubomi Moss Park, Gunma, Japan
A vertical nature photograph captures the extraordinarily lush, otherworldly environment of Chatsubomi Moss Park in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The composition presents a mesmerizing study in natural geography, micro-ecosystems, and the serene, elemental beauty of Japan's volcanic wetlands.

The landscape is defined by dense, undulating mounds of vibrant green moss that blanket the rugged rock formations. The flora forms thick, pillow-like cushions that appear almost velvety, glowing in brilliant shades of chartreuse and rich emerald green. This unique environment is celebrated for hosting Chatsubomigoke (Jungermannia vulcanicola), a rare type of moss-like liverwort that thrives exclusively in the highly acidic, mineral-rich waters of volcanic hot springs.

In striking contrast to the plush, static texture of the mossy banks, a rushing mountain stream cascades through the frame. Captured with a smooth, long-exposure technique, the fast-flowing water is transformed into silky, milk-white ribbons that veil the dark stone backdrop. The water flows gracefully through the narrow channel, pooling into a soft blur around the rounded, moss-covered boulders and generating a cool, misty atmosphere.

The tight vertical framing creates an intimate, immersive view, drawing the eye along the fluid path of the stream as it winds through the dense greenery. The composition beautifully encapsulates the classical Japanese appreciation for moss—celebrated in traditional garden design and poetry as a profound symbol of longevity, humility, and the quiet, untamed passage of time.
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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Nordic Moonwort Botrychium nordicum in lovely lycophyte-rich montane heath in Glen Shee. Frilly divisions, and a shorter stem than lunaria, and GB plants tend to have a lax fertile frond too.
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Yorkshire Peat Partnership @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We recently visited a site that was restored about 2 years ago in the Yorkshire Dales. Sphagnum plugs are doing great! #PeatlandRestoration #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
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2 hour lunch @2-hour-lunch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Mosses and lichen out in the woods after it rained #moss #nature #lichen
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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Frullania austinii - Hairy Scalewort Was hoping for one that starts with B, isn't bolanderi, and has different underleaves. But this one's pretty cool too. It has caducous, erect branches
photomicrograph of a caducous branchletA liverwort underleaf which would have been cooler if it had 4 points. Next to it is some Chroococcid blue-green algaephotomicrograph of a "normal branch" of Frullania austinii. No perianths or antheridia are visible
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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Neat Feather Moss - Pseudoscleropodium purum New to me. It is pretty neat I must say. One of the few mosses known to have an anthropogenic introduction to the area. Based on abundant GBIF records, it looks like there is barely a 5km area in temperate Europe that doesn't have this species.
A golden yellow, somewhat pinnately branched moss with blunt, rounded leaves. which closely overlap each other to trap water inside.
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DistractedHiker @distractedhiker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#HikingLog 35 Taconic mountains, #Massachusetts, Lenox Mountain A bit further down there are some signs of life in this creek, even an attempt at a waterfall #hiking #waterfallWednesday #newEngland #photography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #ECK #nature #moss #mossy
A mostly creek bed runs down a moss-covered rock ledge in a shaded forest.
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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sharp-pointed Earwort - Diplophyllum apiculatum New to me This one's really good at hide and seek, it was hiding from Nova Scotians for about 95 years.
A patch of light green scapanioid liverwort with pointed leaf leaf apexes.A micrograph of a full branch. It has toothy leaves and only faint traces of vitta-like cells, as opposed to the prominently vittate D. albicansA closeup of a leaf apex to show its multicellular apical teethA micrograph of angular gemmules born at the leaf tips
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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Confirmed Sphagnum affine growing in a transition mire with Carex lasiocarpa and other Carex spp. in na Monga, Conamara a month ago. New species for me and looks like the second record for H16 Gailliamh thiar. Thanks for ID help @pilkyplant.bsky.social
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Johannes Merz @mosssoup2.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sphagnum angustifolium together with Aulacomnium palustre at the edge of Pomponrahka ombotrophic bog in SW Finland :)
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Miquel Jover @miqueljover.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
RICCIA FLUITANS, growing on wet soil, in a pond covered with Isoetes velata near Sant Climent Sescebes (province of Girona, NE Iberian peninsula). #bryophytes #liverworts #Ricciaceae
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Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The one in the middle is named Oscar. #moss #nativeplants
Macro image of a bed of bright green sphagnum mosses with long, fringed leaves and brown ball-shaped capsules. Have this pegged as fringed bogmoss, Sphagnum fimbriatum, but make no promises that the ID is accurate.
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Riccia glauca, Glaucous Crystalwort on a path edge in the wonderful Potager Garden in Cornwall.
close up photo showing Glaucous Crystalwort plant
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The Wicker Dan @oddballuk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Lud’s “Church” PROS: Always open, cool, damp and green all year round CONS: No disabled access
Rocky steps leading up out of a large rocky crevice covered in moss and plantsLooking upwards from within the crevice at three points where trees and plants hangA muddy, stony path between two steep, rocky walls covered in moss and plantsAnother look at muddy, stony path between two steep rocky walls, this time from the other direction and sloping downwards
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D. C. Fitzgerald @dcfitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A miniature forest created by epiphytic moss wrapping around thin twigs or saplings...this is likely a type of pleurocarpous (creeping) moss. #moss #ecology #nature #photo
A miniature forest created by epiphytic moss wrapping vertically around thin twigs or saplings...this is likely a type of pleurocarpous (creeping) moss.
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Desert moss may hide one of Earth’s oldest partnerships #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
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Desert moss may hide one of Earth’s oldest partnerships
Scientists found fungi living inside desert moss, suggesting the plants may be part of one of Earth's oldest biological partnerships.
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四方山の家 @yomoyamanoie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
‘Houou-goke (Phoenix moss)’ is rare around here, so I’m always a little happy when I find it. #moss #nature
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A moss gene once thought inactive is active during reproduction and suppresses extra offspring. Without it, plants produce more twins and triplets, and each sporophyte is smaller. doi.org/hb76jq
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Long-dismissed moss gene suppresses twins and triplets, reshaping ideas of plant evolution
A moss gene previously thought to have been inactive actually plays a key role in its evolutionary success, researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered.
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Out on Chat Moss for some peat coring and greenhouse gas measurements with @rchiverrell.bsky.social, @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social. Lots of angry thistles and even angrier horseflies...
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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Long-leaved Thread Moss - Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum Nearby to the other moss giving me a headache this week, but this one was much simpler to put a name to.
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FernSpotting @fernspotting.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron) #fernspotted #ferns #piedmont #spores
Very close view of the underside of mid-green leaflets on the fertile fronds of Ebony Spleenwort.  Reproductive structures on these leaflets are oriented diagonally from the midline of the leaflet, extending upward and outward. The transluscent white coverings on the reproductive structures are indusia, though some are opening, fully opened, or have been completely shed. Tiny, dark, spherical sporangia are visible where the indusia have given way and are filled with ripening spores. This close perspective also shows a dark brown-red variant of the rachis.
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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Wahlenberg's Nodding Moss - Pohlia wahlenbergii A very nice patch of it
A patch of upright branched, light green moss. it's growing on wet rock
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caryocatactes.bsky.social @caryocatactes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
An unusual find of fruiting Tetraphis Moss (Tetraphis pellucida) in Norfolk by the VC 27 recorder (Mary Ghullam). The distinctive four peristome teeth which can be seen in the images give the moss its name @bbsbryology.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Oedipodium griffithianum (Gouty-moss) looking rather good ,growing on acid soil amongst the Crags high up on Craig Cywarch on Sunday, a lovely species i have seen a few times ,love those Capsules with there thick Seta and the abundant Gemmae amongst the leaf axils,nice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
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FernSpotting @fernspotting.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Marginal Wood Fern (Dryopteris marginalis). #fernspotted #ferns #piedmont #spores
Very close look at the underside of mid-green leaflets of Marginal Wood Fern. Developing reproductive structures are located at the margins of the leaflets and capped/protected by off-white kidney shaped indusia (plural of indusium). The indusia cover sori, which are clusters of sporangia inside of which are countless developing spores. Each leaflet also demonstrates a leathery texture and, when looking this closely, networks of veins extending from the center to the distant edges of the leaflet.
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Constance Wilds @constancewilds.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I really liked this moss
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Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Philinotis arnelii (Arnell's Apple-moss) on the Crags on Mynydd Moel last monday @bbsbryology.bsky.social
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Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Encalypta ciliata (Fringed Extinguisher-moss) on the Crags above Llyn Gafr a few days back on tge Cadair Idris NNR, the commonest upland Encalypta,love those Fringed Calyptra @bbsbryology.bsky.social
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Jenny Sinclair @jennysinclair.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
a Vimeo link to the sound of rain falling on moss in the grounds of Saihoji temple, Kyoto. vimeo.com/1185012675?f...
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雨を染み込ませる苔/The Moss Garden in the Rain
西芳寺は静寂な場と思われがちですが、実はとても賑やかな空間です。朝課・晩課の読経の声や庭師の剪定する音、木々のざわめき、鳥たちのさえずり、ときには山の向こうから聞こえてくる猿の声など......ふと気づくと、とてもたくさんの音が境内に満ちています。そんな西芳寺の音のかけらをご紹介します。 青時雨、恵みの雫、苔庭、染み込む雨、小鳥のおしゃべり、石畳、深まる緑、水の律動、心鎮まる..and more...
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Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Plagiochila porelloides,with male inflorescence,on a boulder top on the Afon a few days ago @bbsbryology.bsky.social
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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans - Elegant Silk-Moss New to me I like this one. Most mosses don't come with a built-in bean holster, but this one does.
A macroscopic view of the moss. its leave are quite curvedmicroscopic view of the plagiothecioid moss with several black dots all over itA view of the leaf serrulation, and what are quite short cells for a member of its familyA microscopic area where it looks like a black bean is wearing a seatbelt.
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Archegoniophores: egg-bearing structures on female Marchantia polymorpha plants. They look like tiny green umbrellas that have lost their canopy. The blobby things below are the Marchantia thallus - the main bit of the plant. 💚☂️💚☂️💚☂️💚☂️💚 #MarchantiaMonday
Archegoniophores of Marchantia - looking like umbrellas that have lost their canopy. Green blobby thalli beneath them.
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Smartphone Photographer @pocket-ireland.com · 05/06/2026
Fern Green, Quiet Stream. www.pocket-ireland.com/blog/fern-gr… #photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #IrishNature #LandscapePhotography #FernForest #WaterStreams #QuietSpaces #IrishGlens #ForestBathing
A narrow, shallow stream flows directly towards the viewer through a dense, green glen. Large green ferns frame both sides of the water, catching warm sunlight from above. The stream bed is filled with dark, mossy stones and small pebbles, with the water surface reflecting patches of bright light. Tall grasses and leafy green foliage crowd the muddy banks. The overall mood is peaceful, fresh, and deeply quiet, capturing a secluded forest sanctuary on a sunny day.
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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Plagiopus oederianus - Oeder's Apple Moss New to me I don't know if any of you would remember the incident where I thought I found this 2 years ago based on capsule traits, but the capsules turned out to be more unreliable than my key inferred. Had to go to the herbarium to see the leaf differences.
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Creight Photo 🌱☮️ @afewfromtheforest.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
(earth forests) #ThankfulThursday 📍Pennsylvania
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R. de Wilde @wilde97859522.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sphagnum russowii seen yesterday.
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Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Solenostoma paroicum (Shining Flapwort) looking good in the Ailnack gorge in the Cairngorms a couple of weeks ago @bbsbryology.bsky.social
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Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Schistidium robustum,growing abundantly on boulders on the edge of the Ailnack ravine a couple of weeks ago, lovely Cushions fruiting abundantly @bbsbryology.bsky.social
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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A new site for Drepanocladus trifarius in the Roundstone bogs, na Monga, Conamara growing in lakeside fen vegetation with Schoenus, Scorpidium scorpioides etc. Bhí mé an-sásta é seo a fheiceail, ceann a raibh an-dúil agam a fheiceail (arís) le fada
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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Sphagnum balticum, majus var norvegicum and rubellum #moss #bryophyte
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Piotr Gąsiorowski @piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Metzgeria furcata. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #liverworts #wątrobowce #Marchantiophyta #bryophytes #mszaki #bryology
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Miquel Jover @miqueljover.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The thallose (and hairy) liverwort Metzgeria pubescens in a beech forest near Sant Julià de Cerdanyola, Catllaràs massif, eastern Pyrenees. Always is a pleasure to see this species. #bryophytes #liverworts
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Miquel Jover @miqueljover.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wrinkle-leaved Feather-moss (Rhytidium rugosum), with transversely wrinkled leaves, growing on little-shaded soil in a Pinus sylvestris forest, Catllaras massif, eastern Pyrenees. #bryophytes #mosses #pyrenees
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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I was thrilled to find a new population of Adelanthus lindenbergianus in the Mám Toirce, Conamara last week. It instantly stood out as being something exciting. Three separate patches found with the help of @timoceallaigh.bsky.social. Thanks to @nimbosaecology.bsky.social for confirming
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BSBI Scotland @bsbiscotland.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The things we do for plants…
Being eaten alive by a cave whilst hunting for ferns. Just my legs are sticking out of a narrow slot, whilst a fellow botanist photographs my predicament 😂
Photo by Ruth Alexander, NTS
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Mosses and ferns @fernymoss.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Greater Water-moss reminds me of mussel lines. Both take in dissolved nutrients from flowing water. Long trailing strands flexing with the current rather than resisting it. Fontinalis antipyretica in a Devon brook today. tinyurl.com/fontinalis-a... #moss #bryophytes
Two close-up photos of Greater Water-moss, Fontinalis antipyretica, an aquatic moss and bryophyte growing in a Devon brook.

In the first image, long dark green moss shoots trail across a wet stone surface in shallow flowing water. The shoots run diagonally through the frame like loose underwater ribbons. Each shoot carries overlapping, pointed leaves, several millimetres long, which lie close to the stem where the water pulls them into narrow streaming strands.

In the second image, the same moss is partly submerged in clearer water beside dark wet rock and pale stone. Some shoots are spread more openly, showing a softer, fuller shape, while others are drawn into thinner lines by the current. The colony appears flexible rather than rigid, bending with the flow beneath the water.Two close-up photos of Greater Water-moss, Fontinalis antipyretica, an aquatic moss and bryophyte growing in a Devon brook.

In the first image, long dark green moss shoots trail across a wet stone surface in shallow flowing water. The shoots run diagonally through the frame like loose underwater ribbons. Each shoot carries overlapping, pointed leaves, several millimetres long, which lie close to the stem where the water pulls them into narrow streaming strands.

In the second image, the same moss is partly submerged in clearer water beside dark wet rock and pale stone. Some shoots are spread more openly, showing a softer, fuller shape, while others are drawn into thinner lines by the current. The colony appears flexible rather than rigid, bending with the flow beneath the water.
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Mosses and ferns @fernymoss.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans) on a tall mossy bank in a Devon sunken lane, where the path itself is a shallow stream over limestone. One of the commonest leafy liverworts… and my first earwort! tinyurl.com/diplophyllum-albicans #liverwort #bryophytes
A sunken lane in Devon with a bank about 2 metres high on one side and about 1 metre high on the other. These banks are formed of soil and stone and are thickly covered in bryophytes, rising into shade cast by mature trees above. The two banks are approximately 1.5 metres apart. A shallow stream at the bottom flowing across limestone forms the path.

On one of these damp banks, the image shows a close view of a patch of green leafy liverwort (a bryophyte), forming a soft mat among other mosses and liverworts. The colony extends across approximately one square metre. Individual shoots are about 3–5 mm wide and together form ridges across the surface of the colony.

Each shoot is made up of leaves divided into two unequal lobes: a larger lower lobe and a smaller upper lobe that overlaps it. This gives the impression of four rows of leaves along the shoot. Within each lobe, a pale central band can be seen — this is a vitta, a strip of elongated cells rather than a true nerve.

Rising above some of the shoots are pale, translucent stalks (setae), each topped with a dark brown, oblong capsule. These are the sporophytes of the liverwort, where spores are produced.

The species is White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans).A sunken lane in Devon with a bank about 2 metres high on one side and about 1 metre high on the other. These banks are formed of soil and stone and are thickly covered in bryophytes, rising into shade cast by mature trees above. The two banks are approximately 1.5 metres apart. A shallow stream at the bottom flowing across limestone forms the path.

On one of these damp banks, the image shows a close view of a patch of green leafy liverwort (a bryophyte), forming a soft mat among other mosses and liverworts. The colony extends across approximately one square metre. Individual shoots are about 3–5 mm wide and together form ridges across the surface of the colony.

Each shoot is made up of leaves divided into two unequal lobes: a larger lower lobe and a smaller upper lobe that overlaps it. This gives the impression of four rows of leaves along the shoot. Within each lobe, a pale central band can be seen — this is a vitta, a strip of elongated cells rather than a true nerve.

Rising above some of the shoots are pale, translucent stalks (setae), each topped with a dark brown, oblong capsule. These are the sporophytes of the liverwort, where spores are produced.

The species is White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans).A sunken lane in Devon with a bank about 2 metres high on one side and about 1 metre high on the other. These banks are formed of soil and stone and are thickly covered in bryophytes, rising into shade cast by mature trees above. The two banks are approximately 1.5 metres apart. A shallow stream at the bottom flowing across limestone forms the path.

On one of these damp banks, the image shows a close view of a patch of green leafy liverwort (a bryophyte), forming a soft mat among other mosses and liverworts. The colony extends across approximately one square metre. Individual shoots are about 3–5 mm wide and together form ridges across the surface of the colony.

Each shoot is made up of leaves divided into two unequal lobes: a larger lower lobe and a smaller upper lobe that overlaps it. This gives the impression of four rows of leaves along the shoot. Within each lobe, a pale central band can be seen — this is a vitta, a strip of elongated cells rather than a true nerve.

Rising above some of the shoots are pale, translucent stalks (setae), each topped with a dark brown, oblong capsule. These are the sporophytes of the liverwort, where spores are produced.

The species is White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans).
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Mosses and ferns @fernymoss.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This moss in the shade on the left is still mostly unfurled. Just a centimetre away, in brighter sunshine, others in the same colony have changed form, their shoots tightening into rope-like strands as the leaves fold close to the stem, like protective scales holding in moisture. #moss #bryophytes
Close-up of a bright green moss colony, growing on a Devon Bank. Many tiny moss plants are packed together. 

The left of the frame is in the shade, some shoots look more open and leafy, with tiny leaves spreading away from the stems. 

Nearby, where the colony has been exposed to brighter sunshine and drying, the shoots of other plants have tightened into narrow rope-like strands. Their leaves are folded close around the stem, like overlapping scales, showing how the bryophyte changes shape as it loses moisture.
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