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Hemisphaeric Liverwort (Raboulea hemisphaerica)

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Bolander's Screw-moss (Tortula bolanderi)

A moss new to Britain found in 2021 by Mary Ghullam

Known from Macaronesia (Canary Isles & Madeira) and a few scattered localities in Southwest Europe but is more widely distributed in Western North America.

It was first discovered on rocks near San Francisco Bay, California, and was described as a new species, Barbula bolander, by Leo Lesquereaux in a paper read to the American Philosophical Society
in 1863. The species was named after Henry Bolander (1831-1897), a teacher originally from Germany who had settled in San Francisco in 1861 and subsequently became state botanist for California.

This is one of two sites for this species in Britain.

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Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-moss (Barbula convoluta var convoluta)

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Awl-leaved Screw-moss (Tortula subulata)

You can clearly see the very short, yellow, excurrent nerve at the tip of the leaf which is indicative of this species.

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