Aug 3
#3868 - Leucobryum javense - Milk Moss
AKA Leucobryum candidum, Sphagnum javense, Dicranum candidum, Leucobryum pentastichum, Leucobryum speirostichum, Leucobryum laticaule, Leucobryum candidum var. majus, Leucobryum laticaule Leucobryum spinidorsum and Leucobryum interruptum.
A pale green mat-forming lichen found in forests from India to Japan to New Zealand, and pretty much every island in between. Including of course Java.
Sometimes the mats get quite large - such as these in the Antarctic Beech forest at Manapouri, later in the trip.
Purakaunui Falls, Aotearoa New Zealand
