loverworts's Identifications

1-3 = female involucres
4-5 = groups of female plants
6 = Habitat: in laneway, on bare soil.
7 = female involucres with apical pore, with capsule inside each involucre
8-9 = thallus with a group of female involucres
10 = exposed immature capsule near top of image with involucre removed to show capsule, spore tetrads visible
11-12 = microscopic view of female involucre showing cells
13-15 = more mature capsules
16-17 = spore tetrads
18-20 = male involucres, initially green becoming red.

Male plants much smaller than female plants.

Associated with Lunularia cruciata; Funaria hygrometrica and Gertrudiella torquata .

With kate_mosses