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This moss is commoner further east in California but is known from near Highway 20 in Lake County, California. This specimen was obtained there by B. Mishler and photographed by me soon after collection. March 30th 2012, Image I12-0218
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Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr., syn.: Tortula tortuosa Hedw., Barbula tortuosa (Hedw.) F.Weber & D.Mohr, Tortella bambergeri auct., Barbula brotheri (Lindb. ex Broth.) ParisFamily: PottiaceaeEN: Frizzled Crisp-moss, Tortured tortella moss, DE: Gekruseltes Spiralzahnmoos, Echtes Kruselmoos, Gewelltes SpiralzahnmoosSlo.: valovita zvitkaDat.: April 23. 2021Lat.: 46.35910 Long.: 13.70411Code: Bot_1361/2021_2158 Habitat: Mixed wood, Fagus sylvatica dominant; moderately inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground with scattered rocks and large boulders; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevations 560 m (1.850 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: Half buried calcareous rock.Place: Lower Trenta valley, right bank of river Soa, between villages Soa and Trenta; Matev's gorge, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC. Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Tortella tortuosa): The rounded, dense, when moist vividly yellowish-green, cushions or mats of Tortella tortuosa are beautiful and easy to recognize. The species is widespread and in many places common. It is a Boreo-temperate circumpolar element (growing all around the north hemisphere in forests with moderate to cold climate). Its leaves are extremely tortured and look like 'interwoven'. In the Alps the moss can be found from colline to nival elevations but it is most common in montane and alpine zones. Capsules are relatively seldom reported.Ref.:(1) Ian Atherton, Ed., Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland - a field guide, British Bryological Society (2010), p 428. (2) V. Wirth, R. Dell, Farbatlas Flechten und Moose, Ulmer, (2000), p 239.(3) V. Wirth, Die Mooose Baden-Wrttembergs, Teil.1., Ulmer (2000), p 369.(4)
bryophyteportal.org/portal/taxa/index.php?tid=161155# (accessed Dec. 1. 2021)(5) Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2005 onwards. The moss families (Bryophyta, Musci) of Britain and Ireland. Version: 5th August 2019, delta-intkey.com (accessed Dec. 1. 2021)(6) M. Luth, Mosses of Europe A Photographic Flora. ML Publ., Freiburg, Germany (2019), p 551.
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Zeeland, Netherlands
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On the trunk of a tree in Middletown Trailside County Park, Lake County, California, March 29th 2012. image I12-0046
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This moss formed mats on the trunk of an oak tree near Mariah Meadows Resort (in hills Near Cobb, Lake County, California, March 29th 2012). Photographed at home later from a collected piece, this is image I12-0497 (see adjoining image I12-0482 for capsules). The small green specks seen on the upper leaf surfaces are gemmae that enable vegetative propagation (seen best at high resolution in this image).
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Briantspuddle, England, United Kingdom
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Ingliston, Victoria, Australia
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Zeeland, Netherlands
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Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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Montes de Torrero: Zaragoza.Divisin:Bryophyta Clase:BryopsidaOrden:Pottiales Familia:PottiaceaeDistribucin: Musgo de las regiones boreales y de las montaas tropicales, en reas de muy ocenicas a bastante continentales, cosmopolita.En la Pennsula Ibrica est presente en Espaa y en Portugal, repartido por prcticamente todo el territorio, enrarecindose slo en las regiones ms hmedas. Hbito: Musgo acrocarpo.Hbitat: Terrcola, en suelos poco orgnicos, puede formar grandes cspedes, en claros de bosques abiertos (quejigales, carrascales, pinares de Pinus sylvestris y de P. halepensis, sabinares de Juniperus thurifera en la Depresin del Ebro), en matorrales (romerales, coscojares, aulagares) y en albardinares y pastos secos sobre substratos calcreos o ligeramente cidos.Altitudes: 300- 1400 mEstrategia vital: Perenne competitivoPiso Bioclimtico:Pirineo Montano. Dep. Ebro y Sist. IbericoMesomediterrneoSupramediterrneoDatos reproductivos:Sexualidad: DioicoFertilidad:Sin esporfitosPropagacin vegetativa por estructuras especializadas:NoRangos ecolgicos:Sustrato: Basfilo.Temperatura: Termfilo.Humedad: Xerfilo.Impacto humano: En ambientes con impacto humano de nulo a moderado.Luz: Fotfilo.Extractado del Atlas de la Flora de Aragn (Herbario de Jaca)
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This was one of three Syntrichia species collected by Brent Mishler from near Highway 20 in Lake County and photographed by me soon after its collection. March 30th 2012, image I12-0217
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The moss with very long hair points to the leaves (including the plant with the green capsule) is Crossidium squamiferum. Also present are Bryum argenteum (eg near the top, left of center, and the silvery plants to the right of the Crossidium patch); Aloina sp. (two plants with narrow, dark green leaves with incurved margins towards the upper right) and many plants with triangular yellow green leaves that I'm guessing are a Didymodon species (possibly also a second species with larger leaves) - comments welcome. Photographed in situ on a steep south-facing open grassy bank with rock outcrops, in a small valley just west of the north branch of Cache Creek south of where it crosses Highway 20, Lake County, California. March 30th 2012, Image I12-0251
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Pterygoneurum ovatum habitat.Feb. 4, 2012, Salt Lake County, Bonneville Shoreline terraces, approx. 4900 ft. elev., growing on a small boulder, primarily quartz
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Damper Creek, Queensland, Australia
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This small moss was photographed in situ on a drying mud bank along a track running south from Highway 20 near the place where the highway crosses the north fork of Cache Creek, Lake County, California, on March 30th 2012. Thanks to David Toren for the identification. Note that a plant of Syntrichia sp?. can be seen at the right hand edge above the middle. Bryum argenteum, Aloina and two other acrocarps were within inches, and Tortula atrovirens was close by. Image I12-0211.
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Tyenna, Tasmania, Australia
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Syntrichia ruralis (Hedw.) Weber & Mohr. (synonyms include Tortula ruralis and T. ruraliformis). Gametophytes. When in a more lush condition, the leaves are usually a fairly deep green but can also appear light green-yellow as above. The leaves are tinged with red and are sub-clapsing as the base, squarrose and recurved when moist. When dry they can appear black.The spinulose awns can be as long as 0.5 to 0.75 the length of the leaf blade, sometimes shorter, and appear whitish but are mainly a translucent (hyaline) and with some reddish coloration often at the tip or base.. Grows both in soil and on rocks, often in cracks and with other other mosses. Here is it growing in a less common situation on a flat rock surface being held by connecting growth that extends to where there is soil, and the lichens are providing it with some stability since it isn't ability to affix itself to rock surfaces like say a Grimmia . The lower section section above was about the size of a small pancake and lifted right off the rock surface without any resistance.Feb. 4, 2012, Salt Lake County, Utah, approx. 4,950 ft. elev.
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Photographed in the field at Flying M Ranch, in the eastern Central Valley, Merced County, California, April 6th 2002. On a vertical shaded N-facing semi-overhanging rock face above a stream in otherwise open country; near Adiantum capillus-veneris. Scanned slide 044-721
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Tiny mosses are always a kind of hard for me to identify - many of them are pretty similar and I'm not really willing to spend hours examining cells structure to find out, which species I'm dealing with. But in this case, it was quite easy because of distinctive capsules.You can figure out how small is it keeping in mind that "boulders" in this photo are grains of sand on a surface of concrete block.
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Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr., syn.: Tortula tortuosa Hedw., Barbula tortuosa (Hedw.) F.Weber & D.Mohr, Tortella bambergeri auct., Barbula brotheri (Lindb. ex Broth.) ParisFamily: PottiaceaeEN: Frizzled Crisp-moss, Tortured tortella moss, DE: Gekruseltes Spiralzahnmoos, Echtes Kruselmoos, Gewelltes SpiralzahnmoosSlo.: valovita zvitkaDat.: April 23. 2021Lat.: 46.35910 Long.: 13.70411Code: Bot_1361/2021_2158 Habitat: Mixed wood, Fagus sylvatica dominant; moderately inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground with scattered rocks and large boulders; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevations 560 m (1.850 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: Half buried calcareous rock.Place: Lower Trenta valley, right bank of river Soa, between villages Soa and Trenta; Matev's gorge, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC. Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Tortella tortuosa): The rounded, dense, when moist vividly yellowish-green, cushions or mats of Tortella tortuosa are beautiful and easy to recognize. The species is widespread and in many places common. It is a Boreo-temperate circumpolar element (growing all around the north hemisphere in forests with moderate to cold climate). Its leaves are extremely tortured and look like 'interwoven'. In the Alps the moss can be found from colline to nival elevations but it is most common in montane and alpine zones. Capsules are relatively seldom reported.Ref.:(1) Ian Atherton, Ed., Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland - a field guide, British Bryological Society (2010), p 428. (2) V. Wirth, R. Dell, Farbatlas Flechten und Moose, Ulmer, (2000), p 239.(3) V. Wirth, Die Mooose Baden-Wrttembergs, Teil.1., Ulmer (2000), p 369.(4)
bryophyteportal.org/portal/taxa/index.php?tid=161155# (accessed Dec. 1. 2021)(5) Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2005 onwards. The moss families (Bryophyta, Musci) of Britain and Ireland. Version: 5th August 2019, delta-intkey.com (accessed Dec. 1. 2021)(6) M. Luth, Mosses of Europe A Photographic Flora. ML Publ., Freiburg, Germany (2019), p 551.
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Zeeland, Netherlands
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This moss formed mats on the trunk of an oak tree near Mariah Meadows Resort (in hills Near Cobb, Lake County, California, March 29th 2012). This photograph was taken at home later from a collected piece to show a young capsule with its calyptra and a mature capsule with its peristome. Image I12-0482.
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Briantspuddle, England, United Kingdom
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Ingliston, Victoria, Australia