If you were the size of an ant, this moss would look like a forest of tiny pine trees🌲
Juniper Haircap Moss (Polytrichum juniperinum) forms in dense clusters that resemble pine branches.
📸 Photo by Brittney the botanist
#FabPhotoFriday #Cryptogams #Biodiversity

Ellen Hutchins: The Botanist Who Catalogued an Island from Her Sickbed Ireland’s first female botanist speaks from beyond the archive. Ellen Hutchins discovered twenty species whilst bedridden, created watercolours so precise they settled centuries-old debates a…

Ellen Hutchins: The Botanist Who Catalogued an Island from Her Sickbed
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Cryptogams #Bryology #Phycology

Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)
Prinsdal, Oslo

#ColorADay #GreenSat #Green #Photograph #Plants #Ferns #Cryptogams #PlantSky #Forest #Nature #Norway #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Saturday

Soils in mountain ecosystems above the treeline: critical functions and essential contributions to life on land - a review

#soil #alpine #bacteria #biogeography #cryptogams #fungi #lichens #microbialdiversity #protists #invertebrates
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Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline Biological diversity in mountain ecosystems has been increasingly studied over the last decade. This is also the case for mountain soils, but no study to date has provided an overall synthesis of the...

📢fresh out of the press: a first global analysis of published research on #cryptogams, #microorganisms, and #fauna in #mountain #soils above the treeline, and a structured synthesis of current knowledge.

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This week, our research group hosted Professor Emma Sayer (@panemma.bsky.social) from the University of Ulm, who shared insights from the Gigante Litter Manipulation Project on tropical tree growth, nutrient cycling, and greenhouse gases. #TropicalForests #Litterfall #Cryptogams #NutrientCycling

#bryophytes #lichens #cryptogams #dunes #Mediterranean

Several long, flat ribbons of green tissue cascade down a rock, with a single vein-like structure in the middle. They fork neat their ends, and are fringed with tiny white hairs. They are extremely small; grains in the rock are visible next to them.

My first time finding and photographing Metzgeria conjugata, or Rock veilwort.

#liverwort #metzgeria #plants #botany #cryptogams #inaturalist #macro #macrophotography

Frontiers | Inconspicuous taxa in citizen science-based botanical research: actual contribution, limitations, and new opportunities for non-vascular cryptogams

Cryptogams are gaining attention in citizen science 🪴. Mycologists lead the way, showing how public engagement can advance research on lichens, fungi, and algae.
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Lichens and Bryophytes of Clay Pit Ponds State Park Join us on an education tour of the lichens, mosses, and plants that grow in the park!

On Oct 26, please join us at Clay Pit Ponds Park in Staten Island to explore the local #lichens and #mosses! It's a very interesting habitat and we'll find some interesting species there. Registration and information here: shorturl.at/EneOk

#fungi #flora #NYC #cryptogams 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

Check out the latest curator positions @eurotaxonomy member institutions #anthropology @NHM_London, #herbarium #cryptogams @TheBotanics, #entomology @luomus#Nodustontheseshelves

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