I had the good fortune to connect with Jim Shevock of the Cal Academy recently over some of my bryo photos, and he ended up showing my some cool bryos in the East Bay this weekend. It was great getting to learn some mosses and liverworts with an expert, as I find these to be very challenging to ID without a microscope. Now I feel like I have a good feel for some new genera (Orthotrichum, Porotrichum, Homalothecium), and I'm looking forward to paying closer attention to them in the future. I even think I can get a hornwort to genus now!
Grows on soil
Curves up when dry
Forms networks, curled and twisted leaves when dry
Near small stream, dark red capsules
Likes trees, 4 chambered sporophyte.
Pendant pear like capsules, glaucous leaves, pink stems.
Leaves in rosette, large pendulous capsules.
Leaves corkscrew when dry, soil banks .
Damp places, stream banks, not a liverwort (as I first surmised), has costa, finely serrated leaf tips.
Bigger than P. bolanderi, prefers rock.
Grows in bark nodules, almost exclusively on bay, bright green and shiny, leaves emerge at 45 deg able
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