Antarctic pearlwort
There is only one plant on Rothera and it is in the ASPA, so you will need to ask the Terrestrial Assistant or Lab Manager to show you.
Antarctic hair-grass
A few plants grow in scattered locations on East Beach, and also in the ASPA.
Southern beech
An ancient tree trunk from South America, possibly deposited on East Beach in the last inter-glacial
Liverworts
Cephaloziella varians. This grows in the moss bank behind the Miracle Span.
Photo-micrographs of C. varians from Bird Island
Marchantia berteroana. One of the most easily recognisable liverworts. This illustration is from Bird Island, but it has been reported from Leonie.
Barbilophozia hatcheri has been reported from Rothera.
Bright green small turfs with feathery or brush-like shoots with narrow spiky leaves. Commonly has clusters of sporophytes, with bright green, almost spherical capsules on a reddish seta
Yellow-green (drier habitats) to bright green (wetter habitats) forming carpet, becoming pale yellow-brown about 10 mm below shoot apex. Leaves hook-shaped with distinctly rounded shoot apices.
Short greyish compact cushions. Leaves with a long silvery hair-point, but dark green lower shoot. Sporophytes frequent, with orange spherical capsules borne on very short curved setae; tip of capsule with short spike.
Mid-dark green. Short, compact turf. Blackish stem with few rhizoids. Lower leaves yellowish-buff. Leaf cells are rhomboidal but with no long narrow cells along the leaf margin as in Bryum pseudotriquetrum. Usually indistinct marginal teeth towards the leaf apex. Nerve dark, usually ending just below the apex, often with a distinct kink about two-thirds up from the base. Produces swan neck-shaped sporophytes with swollen bright green capsule.
Mid-dark green. Individual shoots with spiky rosettes of leaves, like miniature fir trees, forming a turf. Leaves glossy with thick wax covering.
Fungi
