South Wales Bryophytes

stacked image in natural light of perianths stacked image in natural light of gemmiferous shoots stacked image in natural light of...

I was in Bangor earlier this week for Butterfly Conservation's annual grant meeting with NRW. I always try and get up early enough to ha...

Today's lunchtime outing with Alfie was to another spoil site just up the road at Grovesend (SN597007). There were no odd-lookin...

Ian Morgan tipped me off about a site with contaminated ground at the former tin works by the 1919 tower at Machynys (SS520988). So, toda...

When I saw this I assumed it was gracillimum , but it seemed to lack thickened leaf margins and attenuated shoots and just looked a bi...

Visits to three Ceredigion lead mines last Friday produced several nice things.  I'll start with 3 showy species: Racomitrium elongatum ...

I’ve taken another look at the Kilvey sample and it's left me more baffled than I was after my hurried examination last night. Some bra...

I collected this troublesome liverwort from Kilvey Hill today. When I collected it, I thought it looked like  Lophozia excisa , but it app...