#bryaceae

[rattyexplores]

Brightly colored moss in an area no one really cares about.

01/08/23 - Bryophyta: Bryaceae sp. - concrete entrance to parking lot

[drhoz]

#2063 - Ptychostomum capillare - Capillary Thread-Moss

Formerly Bryum capillare. A cosmopolitan species that is now found in tropical and temperate habitats worldwide, including growing under artificial lights in Wisconsin's Crystal Cave. In Australia it's common in woodlands, wet sclerophyll forest, rainforest, coastal vegetation and beside waterways.

When mosses growing in an abandoned mine in Spain were studied, it was found to be an effective bioacculmulator of copper, apparently sequestering the metal in the leaf waxes.

[drhoz]

#3019 - Bryum sp.

Formerly the largest genus of moss, with over 1000 species, but split into three in 2005, and split further based on genetic studies in 2013.

Goodale Ssanctuary, West Coolup, Perth.

[drhoz]

#3008 - Rosulabryum sp.

A widespread genus of joint-toothed moss of about 75–100 species, of which 14 are found in Australia, and 5 ONLY in Australia. Especially diverse in Africa.

Baldivis, Perth, WA

[waving-madly]

Bryum limbatum - leaf by gjshepherd_br on Flickr.