Please help to id this moss...

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[Green Baron]

Hi Dom,
I think this is a liverwort and not moss. Prof Tan ID this one before but I can't remember the name. The id can be found in the Singapore BP/Science Center Liverwort booklet written by Prof Tan.

Kwek Leong may remember the name of this liverwort.

[itssg]

Hi Gan,
This is the moss from the tank of No.48 International Aquascaping competition 2005. I bought this moss since months ago before they enter this competition. I found it is growing well in quite high temperature. 29-30 with CO2 supply.

Loh,
I forgotten to send this moss to you to verify. I will send again. Sorry for the incoveniences.

Cheers,
Dom

[timebomb]

When I first saw your pictures, I thought it was Singapore Moss. Then Gan said it's a Liverwort and I thought it was too. I can't remember the name but Oriental of Singapore grows them on driftwoods. They gave me a piece the last time I visited them. Here's a pic:



But now you say the moss is from one of the tanks at Natural Aquatic World in Kuala Lumpur. I sent a couple of mosses to them, namely, Taiwan, Erect and Weeping recently. When I was there earlier, they had a moss in their tanks that could be either Christmas or Singapore.

My guess is, Dom, yours is Singapore Moss. But I'm not sure. In any case, the merry-go-round I had trying to identify it goes to show that it's difficult to identify mosses from pictures.

Loh K L

[Green Baron]

Kwek Leong,
Yes, that is the liverwort I was referring to.

Dom,
After taking another look, I think we need a better photo to tell if this is a moss or liverwort. If you can taking a closeup picture of a single strand, that would help.

If this is a moss, then it would most likely be a Vesicularia.

[imported_shaman]

Hi guys,

I have some of this plant inside my tank. Looks like Sg moss to me.