#grimmia

Growing on laterite boulders at Mt. Matilda, but very common on rocks in temperate areas worldwide. Such as below, on Sullivan's Rock near Perth, and on a much smaller granite outcrop near Tumbarumba.

There are at least 800 described Grimmia sp., but they're so difficult to ID that herbarium collections worldwide are plagued by misidentifications. The American bryologist Geneva Sayre, who worked on the North American Grimmias, wrote that the genus "contains an ambigua, a varia, a decipiens, a controversa, a revisa and at least two anomalas".

✨Bastet✨

Grimmia De Lotte, 25

Ash’s now best friend and “companion”. When Ash transferred to a campus, Grimmia was the only one who could stand being around her. She didn’t have many friends to begin with, most people found her very odd and a little off putting. Ash took a liking to her and “decided” they should become friends. Grimmia not really caring what others did or thought, decided to go along for the ride. Even though deep down she enjoys the company, you couldn’t tell what she was feeling because of her constant boring attitude.  She likes collecting cute and spooky things and never goes anywhere without her ghost backpack.

Bryophyte /  Grimmia (Mosses)

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