#NewSpecies!
Radula rheophila
A newly discovered liverwort from #thailand!

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F613211E-8205-5AD0-9E17-E1AA6B42E48D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.271.181229
#PhytoKeys #RadulaRheophila

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #flora #wildplants #plants #wildlife #radulaceae #liverworts

Our paper “Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant” is out in
@GigaScience
! We present a T2T genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia with truly giant chromosomes. 🌱🧬 #plantgenomics #T2T #liverworts #nanoporeSequencing
@nanopore

tinyurl.com/m8tkkxd3

Oh well! I spotted some Lunularia cruciata / Crescent-cup liverworts growing in a ferns’ pot. Some of the cups are growing gemmae. Welcome little thing 😃

#botany #garden #gardenphoto #liverworts

20/04/2025 - A Sunday morning stroll to the bottle bank again (I eat a lot of jam and those jars keep building up).

It's that time of year again when one of my favourite small things start to show, Common Liverwort. It just looks like it's from a different planet.

Two close up photos - Reproductive structures known as gametophores. Male gametophores on left, female gametophores right

#Mosstodon #Liverworts #Bryophytes

Crescent-cup Liverwort (Lunularia cruciata) reproduces asexually with tiny, disc-shaped gemmae. These develop in moon-shaped cups on the plant’s surface and disperse when raindrops hit, splashing them out of their cups.

#liverworts #california #wildlife #nature