SOBEFREE 19

At the end of March I attended SOBEFREE 19, which is a bryophyte workshop that is put on annually and is more like a fun reunion for bryologists throughout the country. It was hosted in Boulder Creek, CA, which is outside of Santa Cruz. 

It was nice to get back into the rainy redwoods. I had never been in a redwood forest this far south before. There were lots of madrone (Arbutus menziesii), oak species, and unfortunately, poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum) mixed in. 

Alsia sp.

Antitrichia sp.

Antitrichia sp. under the microscope.

The hornwort Anuera sp. 

Atrichum sp. 

Brachythecium sp.

The thalloid liverwort Cryptometrium sp.

Dendroalsia sp. 

Dicranoweisia sp. mixed in with the lichen Cladonia sp. 

Dicranoweisia sp. up close. 

Didymodon insulana

Fissidens sp. under the dissecting scope.

The asymmetrical sporophyte of Funaria sp.

The leafy liverwort Jungermannia rubra.

The moss Kindbergia sp.

Kindbergia sp. under the microscope. 

A cute little hornwort we found out in the field. 

The hornwort population was huge in this spot, probably due to the water seepage out of the hillside.

Lunularia cruciata with the crescent moon shaped gemmae cups. 

The gemmae cups carry the asexual liverwort propagules of L. cruciata.

Pohlia sp.  

The leafy liverwort Radula bolanderi.

The thalloid liverwort Riccia sp. 

I saw the California nutmeg (Torrya californica) out in the field for the first time!

Torrya californica