Chiloscyphus sp.

Paddys River, ACT

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Identification history

	Chiloscyphus sp.	5 Mar 2018	Heino1
	Unidentified	3 Feb 2018	RodDeb

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3 comments

Heino wrote:

5 Feb 2018

This is either a moss or a leafy liverwort, and I suspect the latter, but the photo does not show enough detail to be sure. In both types of plant you find leaves growing from stems. Chiloscyphus semiteres is a common leafy liverwort in our area and you find it growing over soil, rocks or wood in habitats ranging from suburban gardens to forests. The stems creep over the substrate, the leaves come out from opposite sides of the stem and all leaves are in one plane. Here (http://www.cpbr.gov.au/bryophyte/photos-captions/chiloscyphus-fissistipus-161.html) is a close-up of a different species showing that sort of leaf arrangement. In that photo you see a narrow stem, running horizontally, from which numerous leaves grow out. The leaves are roughly rectangular, densely packed so that each leaf slightly overlaps a neighbouring leaf and there are very short teeth projecting from the outer ends of the leaf. The plant in your photo could have this sort of leaf arrangement, hence suggesting a species of Chiloscyphus, but it’s not a close enough view to be sure. I’ll leave it for the moment, in case you have other photos, but I may end up deleting it on the grounds of inconclusive evidence.

RodDeb wrote:

5 Feb 2018

Will put a closer view but it's the best could do, the camera was as close as it would allow on close-up. Apologies if it is still not good enough.

RodDeb wrote:

22 Feb 2018

Hi Heino,
we were at Tidbinbilla again yesterday and took closer photos of the plant, hope they help.

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