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Lophozia sp. This species grows on bare rock faces above the scree line. |
Photo-micrograph of Lophozia |
Riccardia sp. |
Cephaloziella varians. This species was found in some of the meadows in
Wanderer Valley, just below Wanderer Ridge. It appears to favour the
grass meadows. The stems are very thin, and the bifurcated leaf tips
are brown, where the rest of the plant is green or colourless. It
may be mixed in with other species. |
Photo-micrographs of C. varians |
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Gottschia sp.
Liverwort found on rocks at top of scree slope above King
Edward Cove.
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Marchantia berteroana.
The most easily recognisable liverwort on the
island. The large thallus is often visible on the peat banks of the
lower parts of the streams.
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Barbilophozia hatcheri/Lophozia
propagulifera? |
Pachyglossa dissitifolia? |
Lophocolea sp?
A leafy liverwort |
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| Riccardia spp. |
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Riccardia spp. |
Riccardia spp. |
Riccardia spp. |
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Mosses |
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| Chorisodontium aciphyllum |
Syntrichia robusta |
Sanionia uncinatus |
Bartramia patens |
Polystrichastrum alpinum
with sporophytes (capsules) |
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| Polystrichastrum alpinum |
Conostomum pentastichum |
Racomitrium lanuuginosum
(grey) and Bucklandiella heterostichum (brown). |
Philonotis acicularis ? |
Philonotis acicularis ?
(was Andreaea ?) |
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Fungi |
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| Omphalina sp. |
?Mycena |
Peligera canina with
pink ascomycete fungus. (KEP) |
Cup fungi (Maiviken lakes) |
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| Lichen |
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| At least 6 different lichens
are visible in this image, including Pseudocyphellaria freycinetti
(Yellowish, crinkly bottom L), Sphaerophorus globosus (corally,
pinkish, centre-lower R), Cladonia sp (yellow spiky, top centre),
Tephromela atra? (white, crustose) |
Cladonia sp (brownish,
mid lower left) and Stereocaulon (grey) |
Xanthoria elegans |
Rhizocarpon geographicum |
Stereocaulon cf. |
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| Usnea antarctica |
Hypogymnia lugubris |
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Lichen from |
Rothera |
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| Umbilicaria decussate
(dark discs), Usnea sphacelata (black bushy) and Pleopsidium
chlorophanus (sulpher yellow) |
Rhizocarpon geographicum |
Usnea antarctica and Pseudephebe
miniscula (black) |
Umbilicaria antarctica |
Xanthoria elegans |
