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feltmistress.bsky.social
Look who we bumped into in the woods yesterday. He was happy to stop for a photo but told us he had to dash as he was busy cultivating cryptogams.
February 18, 2026 at 9:28 AM
chrisgrey.bsky.social
This reminds me of my favourite story about Bletchley Park recruitment: Geoffrey Tandy was recruited for his supposed expertise in cryptograms. It turned his expertise was in 'cryptogams' i.e. mosses, ferns etc. (BTW it ended well, as a he became an effective Head of Naval Section VI.)
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Aug 19
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
August 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
retractus.bsky.social
Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)
Prinsdal, Oslo

#ColorADay #GreenSat #Green #Photograph #Plants #Ferns #Cryptogams #PlantSky #Forest #Nature #Norway #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Saturday
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Moss and lichen: A deep dive into cryptogams

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March 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
davidgdelolmo.bsky.social
Very thankful to have been part of #ISCB2025 in Pontevedra to share our work on #mosses, connect with colleagues, and enjoy cryptogams and the beautiful surroundings!💚

@24iscb.bsky.social @sebriologia.bsky.social @flaglab.bsky.social @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social @sebot.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
ingeborgklarenberg.bsky.social
How the small host the small: doi.org/10.22541/au....
How the small host the small: Cryptogam trait-mediated structuring of Antarctic microarthropod communities
Primary producers shape terrestrial biodiversity, yet, most research has focused on vascular plants and the role of cryptogams (mosses, lichens and algae) remains under-explored. Cryptogams dominate A...
doi.org
May 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
swolecialism.bsky.social
fellas be monographing on cryptogams
January 8, 2024 at 4:39 PM
catanonim.me
Cryptograms ~ cryptogams in PO'B… 😀
Desolation Island (Book 5) — This is perhaps the most prominent. The voyage to Australia and the eponymous island in the southern Indian Ocean gives Maturin rich opportunity to observe and collect cryptogams in remote, previously unstudied environments. The search also surfaced a famous line from the series in which Maturin laments: > "All this infernal hurrying with a veritable ark of non-descript cryptogams within musket range." This complaint — about being rushed away from a site teeming with undescribed cryptogamic specimens — is a hallmark of Maturin's frustration throughout the series. The Cryptogams vs. Cryptograms Connection A Reddit discussion on r/AubreyMaturinSeries titled "Cryptogams vs cryptograms" notes that the wordplay between cryptogams (spore-bearing plants) and cryptograms (coded messages) is almost certainly deliberate on O'Brian's part — a witty reflection of Maturin's dual identity as both a naturalist and an intelligence agent.
August 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM
abbiodiversity.bsky.social
If you were the size of an ant, this moss would look like a forest of tiny pine trees🌲
Juniper Haircap Moss (Polytrichum juniperinum) forms in dense clusters that resemble pine branches.
📸 Photo by Brittney the botanist
#FabPhotoFriday #Cryptogams #Biodiversity
March 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
crawfordartgallery.bsky.social
Today is #WomenInScience Day so let’s celebrate Ireland’s first female field botanist!

Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815) held a great interest in natural history and began to study cryptogams (non-flowering plants), collecting more than 1,100 plant specimens throughout her twenties.
A botanical study on vellum of a red seaweed.
February 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
acerbicotter.bsky.social
the only cryptos I want to hear about:
cryptography in the past (WWI, WWII, the old ciphers kings used)
cryptogams
cryptopores in soil
February 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
catanonim.me
Most things find their way into O'Brian's Aubrey~Maturin roman fleuve, and cryptogams are no exception:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AubreyMaturinSeries/comments/1d25dmt/cryptogams_vs_cryptograms/
August 19, 2026 at 5:56 PM
acerbicotter.bsky.social
cryptogams
June 3, 2024 at 11:41 PM
epiphytic.bsky.social
Yes please. Agroecology, agroforestry, regen ag; no aggro. Also ecology esp lichens and other cryptogams, temperate rainforest and peatlands.
December 9, 2024 at 3:23 PM
dmac00.bsky.social
Said temperate rainforest cryptogams:

- Pyrenula chlorospila/macrospora with insurgence of Graphina ruiziana (1st Louth record)
- Hyocomium armoricum
- Peltigera horizontalis
- Jubula hutchinsiae
September 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
boblynn.bsky.social
Ellen Hutchins: The Botanist Who Catalogued an Island from Her Sickbed
voxmeditantis.com/2025/11/03/e...

#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Cryptogams #Bryology #Phycology
Ellen Hutchins: The Botanist Who Catalogued an Island from Her Sickbed
Ireland’s first female botanist speaks from beyond the archive. Ellen Hutchins discovered twenty species whilst bedridden, created watercolours so precise they settled centuries-old debates a…
voxmeditantis.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
func-ecol-lab.bsky.social
And you have to love lichen and moss together 😊 a focus of our group is exploring the holobiont system in these contrasting cryptogams, and figuring out what they’re upto. Such a fascinating little world right there!
December 15, 2024 at 10:20 AM
botsocamerica.bsky.social
Computer vision species identification of lichens and bryophytes from biocrusts in Australian drylands

New in #AppsPlantSci by Lawler, @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social, Cargill & Gueidan

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #lichen #bryophyte #biocrust #MachineLearning #ComputerVision
The image shows a photograph of various species of the thalloid liverwort Riccia and other cryptogams such as mosses and lichens growing on soil. The photograph was taken in Charleville Rock Pools (Queensland, Australia) by Rosemary Purdie.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
gbif.es
Hoy comienza en Pontevedra el XXIV Simposio Internacional de Botánica Criptogámica, donde nuestra compañera Katia Cezón presentará, el martes 8 a las 16:00, la ponencia

"Cryptogams in the light of data: a perspective from GBIF"

www.cryptogamicbotany2025.es @gbif.org #botánica #criptogamia
July 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
botland-uib.bsky.social
This year, a research study has been published on cryptogams (bryophytes and lichens) inhabiting dune systems and their potential use as bioindicators to assess human impacts or define specific habitats.
October 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
garethphoenix.bsky.social
Interesting paper:
Tundra Plant Canopies Gradually Close Over Three Decades While Cryptogams Persist
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

As the authors point out, "These results call into question the dominant dogma that cryptogams will decline with increases in vascular plant abundance" 🤯
Tundra Plant Canopies Gradually Close Over Three Decades While Cryptogams Persist
Two sites in northern Alaska representative of the circumpolar tundra biome were periodically sampled over more than three decades. Plant canopies both grew taller and increased in complexity while m...
doi.org
May 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
jutfelt.bsky.social
Two permanent Associate Professor positions in botany at the excellent University of Gothenburg! Open to international candidates.

Cryptogams:
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Vascular plants:
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

@naturvetenskap.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 AM
thevagrantlichenologist.com
Why not start off with an announcement? In spring I'll be joining the Cryptogamic Plants & Fungi Section at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh as their Alpine Cryptogam Functional Omics Scientist, part of a new NERC funded project investigating response of alpine cryptogams to environmental change.
September 21, 2023 at 1:32 PM
botanyvisible.bsky.social
Check out the review of a new British book on mosses and lichens. We love cryptogams!
plantcuttings.uk/2025/02/28/m...
Moss and lichen: A deep dive into cryptogams
Elizabeth Lawson’s “Moss and Lichen” is a groundbreaking addition to Reaktion Books’ Botanical series, shifting focus from vascular to non-vascular plants and encompassing f…
plantcuttings.uk
March 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
acerbicotter.bsky.social
the only things with "crypt" in their name I want to hear about are

Krypto, Superman's dog
cryptids like mothman
cryptogams (non seed bearing plants)
and MAYBE historical crypts although thinking about death too much is bad for me
July 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM