Bryophyte of the Month

Lunularia cruciata (L.) Lindb.

Lunularia cruciata is a common plant but is dioicous and sporophytes are uncommon because males are rarer than females and the two sexes are not often found together. Richard Fisk did find both on a roadside bank adjacent to bridge over the river Glena near Knocknagashel Co. Kerry on the BBS 2009 summer field meeting. The collected material subsequently produced sporophytes when grown on.

Each month we will be displaying here a new bryophyte image, and the images shown in previous months will be kept for viewing in the gallery. Submissions for this page are very welcome, and should be sent to Jonathan Sleath, preferably as a 600 pixel width JPEG. It would be very useful if some explanatory text could be sent to accompany the image.