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A liverwort? Or moss found growing by a stream, mixed with delicate fern moss.
Spotted on Feb 4, 2014
Submitted on Feb 4, 2014
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oh yeah definately in the Mniaceae family. I can see faint teeth on the leaf margins as well. Looks to me like it is either in the Plagiomnium or mnium genus.
Thanks Miles. I've changed the pictures to be more cropped and close up. I forgot how small they show here. It looks to me like they have a costa. What do you think?
okay it is possible there is a liverwort in there.... if the leaves have a costa (midrib) then it is a moss
Thank you Miles. Yes, I meant the one in the middle with the rounder leaves. I think the other is Delicate Fern moss. I'll go back and try to see if the leaves have teeth or not.
Its hard to tell what particular moss this picture is trying to capture. It looks like there is a pleurocarp moss on the perimeter of the photo, but in the middle it looks like moss within the family of Mniaceae (broadly oval leaves; limbidium etc). If the leaves have teeth on the margins then it is possibly within the Plagiomnium genus or mnium. If no teeth, then it Rhizomnium genus.