Plagiochila porelloides
Quite a small liverwort when I saw it, battered by the spate flows and silt incursions from a nearby waterfall. It can be quite a bit bigger than these 1cm long specimens, though. It also commonly occurs away from water in woodlands, too, though always attached to rock. Even so, it's part of a dsintictive community of liverworts living very close to the water on rocks in burns in Argyll.
I liked the way the subdued woodland light brought out the delicate textures of the leaves.
Plagiochila porelloides is an example of a, structurally, fairly simple leafy liverwort. Other types of liverwort can have much more complex leaf arrangements. Hopefullly I'll showcase those in a future photo post.
You can find more images of Bryophytes, mainly from Argyll, in my album at:
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipPJNYBCG8aEbiUPQz-SR5hJq__QxIJygfkmgOac
Or here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/106899153891562063558/ArgyllBryophytes#
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