South Wales Bryophytes

Graham and I needed to visit Parc Lodge Wood - in the Sugarloaf Woodlands SAC of NW Monmouthshire - to see whether water abstraction from a ...

Once upon a time... not so long ago... I got very excited about Colura .  Back in 2001 there were just two records of this species from sout...

Below are some images of two  Plagiochila samples collected on Monday, close to the second (new?) Sticta canariensis site in the upper s...

Lejeunea patens is uncommon in VC41. As far as I can tell, the most recent record was made by Sam and Graham (2010) for Sgwd Gwladys in ...

Well I finally had another attempt at sectioning the Lejeunea stem and managed this result. <=6 medullary cells seems to be a good point...

I'm assuming this is just poorly grown lamacerina , but there appears to be a hint of mandonii about it. My first attempt at sectioning...

Not having a copy of Paton is a pain when it comes to those liverworts that need checking microscopically. I collected this Lejeunea yester...