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Fleshy Liverwort Marchantia sp
Photo E Collins
Showing the flattened umbrella-like male reproductive bodies.It is surrounded by Fire Moss Funaria hygrometrica
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Broad-leafed Marchantia M berteroana
Photo E Collins
The cup-like structures are gemma cups which hold small buds. These buds are washed out by raindrops.The tiny dots are openings to air chambers in the thallus.
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Greenshield Lichen Flavoparmelia sp
Photo E Collins
A common foliose lichen on wood.The discs are fruiting bodies which produce the spores of the fungal partner.
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Broad-lobed Marchantia. M berteroana
Photo E Collins
The "umbrellas" are immature and there are no gemma cups.This photo was taken post fire and The Fire Moss and Lichens were among the first colonizers of the bare ground.
