#FotoMontag #Naturfotografie #Botanik Dorniger #Moosfarn #Selaginella selaginoides

RT @jeffbenca@twitter.com

Indigo iridescence in a #selaginella species from Sarawak. #rareplants #botany

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jeffbenca/status/1619838684140023808

Despite appearances, these two water lovers are, from what I can tell, not actually true #mosses.

I believe the one on the left is (probably) a patch of thallose #liverwort, most likely #Lunularia spp.

And on the right is (again, probably) a shaggy clump of #spikemoss, most likely #Selaginella spp.

Of course we still love them anyway.

Also, I plead excited amateur status here, so true moss experts please correct any of my (likely) taxonomic errors 🤓.

#Mosstodon

A beautiful winter day here in Tucson hiking King Canyon in the Tucson Mountains with my daughter's hiking club. We saw a lot of Selaginella arizonica, Notholaena, and Astrolepis. Happily, the hand lens got a lot of use by the kids!

#Tucson #SonoranDesert #hiking #Selaginella