Lichens; Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts

Lichens; Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts

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Lichens

Lichen is a symbiotic partnership between a fungus and an alga or a cyanobacterium. The classification is based on the fungal partner and lichens are often referred to as lichenized fungi. Those lacking symbiotic algal or cyanobacterial partners are the non-lichenized fungi. The separation of lichenized from non-lichenized fungi is artificial, with no taxonomic basis.

Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts

Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts are collectively called Bryophytes, and produce spores rather than seeds, without flowers.

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Lichens; Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts

Lichens
Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts

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sangio7 wrote:
5 Aug 2025
Suggested ID based on https://www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/learning/species-finder/bryum-capillare/ and https://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/Taxon/Rosulabryum-capillare.html
Bryaceae (family)
sangio7 wrote:
1 Aug 2025
According to https://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/Taxon/Pseudocrossidium-crinitum.html, the long hairpoints at the leaf tips after which this species is named is a good ID feature.
Barbula crinita
sangio7 wrote:
31 Jul 2025
According to https://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/Taxon/Pseudocrossidium-crinitum.html, the long hairpoints at the leaf tips after which this species is named is a good ID feature.
Grimmia sp. also in the patch, possibly Grimmia laegivata
Barbula crinita
Tapirlord wrote:
23 Jul 2025
Spot on @sangio7
Polytrichaceae sp. (family)
Heinol wrote:
9 Jul 2025
This is a lichen - Lichenomphalia chromacea.
Lichenomphalia chromacea

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