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Common Frillwort (Fossombronia pusilla)Observer
rambryumDescription
Mysteryombronia later in dev and still immersed on fine mineral bank
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corndogDescription
Incubated elk (or deer) dung
spores on the smaller side... 7-9 x 6-7.5? Going to re-measure
setae 200-350 ish
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Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)Observer
rambryumDescription
Logging road pull off with fine, disturbed and seasonally saturated soil
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Coccomyces tumidusObserver
kevintooDescription
Growing on the decaying leaves of Gaultheria shallon.
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Genus PalaemnemaObserver
camerondeckertDescription
A species in waiting - Bill Haber has identified this as an undescribed species (P. "Manzanillo") closely related to P. distadens and P. baltodanoi. Gentle catch and release.
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Ephuta coloradellaObserver
shawnb2Description
In dry needle litter beneath Arctostaphylos, about 10m above sea level, warm moderately sunny slope out of the wind. Two individuals observed. Looks close to E. coloradella (but nearest genus records are over 600 km away)
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Emerald Dewdrops (Ephemerum crassinervium)Observer
rambryumDescription
on silty trail soil bank along with FOssombronia foveolata and bryum argenteum
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Spidery Mossear (Rimbachia arachnoidea)Observer
rambryumDescription
On syntrichia spotted by @bradenjudson
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rambryumDescription
spotted and IDed by @corndog - nitrophilous on dog-soaked Sanionia uncinatus. Phonetic name sounded like Pseudombrophila but cannot find the genus
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Common Lichens (Class Lecanoromycetes)Observer
jbindernagelDescription
Muscicolous on tree branches
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Genus DermeaObserver
corndogDescription
On bark of Pseudotsuga menziesii. I thought this was a Chaenothecopsis or other calicioid at first glance, now I'm thinking Dermea or close, but the habit is strange.
Apothecia <1mm. Only few mature spores, 4 celled, 16-17 × 6.5-7.5. Conidia are sickle shaped, roughly 17-20 x 1-1.5. I'm not sure I recognized any of the fruiting bodies as beaked pycnidia, but didn't get a look at any asexual structures otherwise. IKI-, I think.
Entire hymenium is yellow-green in H2O. black, carbonaceous tissue in the ascomata violently dissolves red in KOH, leaving the hymenium and excipulum hyaline and easily visible after the pigment is washed away, pretty neat.
It keys roughly to D. pinicola... There is a Dermea pseudotsugae but I don't think that matches well either
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Common Lichens (Class Lecanoromycetes)Observer
corndogDescription
On old-growth D. fir. bark
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Limbella fryeiObserver
corndogDescription
same locality as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112346067
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Olympic Brachydontium Moss (Brachydontium olympicum)Observer
corndogDescription
Tentative ID - spotted by @mattunitis
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Bolander's Bruchia (Bruchia bolanderi)Observer
rambryumDescription
@dbltucker bryo emergency. ono drying muds of receding subalpine lake
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Rice Cutgrass (Leersia oryzoides)Observer
johndreynoldsDescription
Cheam Lake Wetlands Regional Park, Fraser Valley, BC, Canada
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Genus DicranodontiumObserver
rambryumDescription
Odd. Sheltered crevive under rotting log
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Feather Mosses (Order Hypnales)Observer
rambryumDescription
Collected. Spotted by @bradenjudson can't remember habitat/
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Genus KurziaObserver
rambryumDescription
At the time that @bradenjudson spotted this stuff, we thought it was Kurzia. Wondering now if hints of Lep sand? over peaty, bryophyte rich soil
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Orkney Notchwort (Anastrepta orcadensis)Observer
dbltuckerDescription
In mixed hepatic mat of herbertus pleurozia, and lepidozia filamentosa under cedar shrubs in bog. No gemmae but confirmed under microscope. Broadly recurved ventral margin, and convex leaves, no underleaves. @johndreyolds @bradenjudson @rambryum
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Bird's-foot Earwort (Scapania ornithopoides)Observer
dbltuckerDescription
v stoked about this one
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Haida Gwaii Slug (Staala gwaii)Observer
kovaskaDescription
Mature 2nd-growth
coniferous forest; THE NAUTILUS 124(1):25–33, 2010
(naturally
regenerated with
patches of old
growth)
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Orange-bearded Bluebottle Fly (Calliphora vomitoria)Observer
johndreynoldsDescription
Morning dew, roosting on a grass stem. Kunsoot Creek, Denney Island. Near Bella Bella, Central Coast, BC, Canada
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Campiglossa jamesiObserver
shawnb2Description
Swept from Grindelia stricta.
I think this might be C. jamesi, like my previous observation (linked below). My photography setup is better now, and I have more experience, so I'll try to re-ID under a scope.
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cwardropDescription
Steep face of creekside rock with bryos below soil-creek rock margin. Some stem leaves pigmented, sometimes inconsistent and splotchy as in the tenth photo?
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Similar Notchwort (Anastrophyllum assimile)Observer
cwardropDescription
Trailing down small cliff face in bog. Trigonous.
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Dalton's Moss (Daltonia splachnoides)Observer
dbltuckerDescription
on salmonberry in hyperoceanic drippy splash zone of water fall.
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Glacier Bay Wolf Spider (Pardosa diuturna)Observer
liamraganDescription
Collected for the Royal BC Museum
Photos #1-4 taken by @dccopley for identification and uploaded at their request / with their permission
Photos #5-10 on are my own in the field. Individual was alive at time of photos being taken.
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Physarum rubiginosumObserver
zeckloDescription
Sporocarps - Sessile, ≈0.7-1mm, growing on bark.
Peridium - Bright orange, brittle, calcareous, seems thick.
Capillitium - White, overall quite irregular. Nodes: yellow, elongated, made of granules.
Spores - Dark brown in mass, brown in transmitted light, minutely warted. I'd guess within the range of 7-10um.
@tyson_ehlers @ryan_durand @pamjanszen Feeling pretty good about my ID. P. lateritium doesn't seem to match as well given sporocarp size, peridium, and nodes. P. rubiginosum also just seems more likely.
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Kluane Bumble Bee (Bombus kluanensis)Observer
thygDescription
maybe? Or some other Alpinobombus? @sydcannings @manysarahs @beesofcanada
Observation collected with permission from BC Parks
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Norris' Beard Moss (Vinealobryum norrisii)Observer
chlorophiliaDescription
on conglomerate bolder
likely calc-enriched
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Woollybear Gall Wasp (Atrusca trimaculosa)Observer
roanan_dDescription
On Quercus garryana abaxial leaf surface
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Wilson's Bird-of-Paradise (Diphyllodes respublica)Observer
johndreynoldsDescription
Trail behind Mandum Homestay, Wilson's Bird of Paradise hike. Waigeo. Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
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Lophocolea coadunataObserver
cwardropDescription
In Bazzania trilobata in bog.
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Bog Notchwort (Odontoschisma fluitans)Observer
johndreynoldsDescription
Gymnocolea inflata? Denney Island, Central Coast, BC, Canada
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Moss Urn Lichen (Lopadium pezizoideum)Observer
rambryumDescription
On deadened bryos (neckera?)
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Fish Isopods (Family Cymothoidae)Observer
demersalDescription
Tucked under the operculum.
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Hercynian Hair Moss (Oligotrichum hercynicum)Observer
rambryumDescription
I think. In drainage along bare gravel
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Attinella dorsataObserver
thomasbarbinDescription
my first male! under rock. habitat photos included
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Fish Isopods (Family Cymothoidae)Observer
shawnb2Description
Not sure about IDing these, so I took a couple specimens in 95% EtOH
