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Bazzania trilobata

Bazzania trilobata, showing flagelliform shoots. A widely distributed robust leafy liverwort of Western Britain, found in humid and sheltered areas.

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Acaulon muticum

Acaulon muticum, photographed by Brad Scott on a recent SE Group meeting to Scotney Castle. This tiny and often gregarious ephemeral is found occasionally on disturbed soil, mainly in the lowlands.

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Dicranodontium uncinatum

Dicranodontium uncinatum, photographed by David Long on the Spidean Coinich ridge of Quinag, West Sutherland, on 3 August 2015, on the Nordic Bryological Society Meeting in Scotland.

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Porella arboris-vitae

Porella arboris-vitae is a widespread bitter-tasting liverwort on boulders and rocky banks in woodlands of the north and west

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Schistostega pennata

Thanks to Des Callaghan for another amazing image - the leaf tip of Schistostega pinnata with dark field illumination and polarised light.

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Hennediella heimii

Hennediella heimii, usually at home in coastal habitats, is now taking up residence on salted road verges. Thanks to Robin Stevenson for the photograph.

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Jubula hutchinsiae

A photomicroscopy darkfield image of the leaf margin of Jubula hutchinsiae showing the large and glistening oil bodies surrounded by the much smaller green chloroplasts, from Des Callaghan.

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Jubula hutchinsiae

This extraordinary colony of the hyperoceanic southern-temperate leafy liverwort Jubula hutchinsiae was photographed wooded oceanic ravine in Knapdale, Argyll by Stan Phillips.

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Herbertus borealis

Herbertus borealis is a Scottish endemic, known only from the Toirridon area. Further details of the barcoding work that has clarified its place and within the genus can be found in Neil bell's and David Long's paper from Field Bryology 106.

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Pterygoneurum ovatum

Pterygoneurum ovatum, a plant of thin soil in open basic habitats, photographed by Sharon Pilkington at Gilling Down in the Polden Hills, Somerset.

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