Natural History Photographs


After a not so exciting New Year's Eve, the first excursion of 2017 went to the pine forest of Aguamansa. Here I hoped to find Aeonium aureum, something that turned out to be not so difficult. The landscape was often magnificent, but as for plants and lichens, the laurel forest is more rewarding. Nonetheless, the Canary pines clad in beard lichens were a very nice sight.


Neotinea maculata
Authority:(Desf.) Stearn, 1975
Synonyms:Satyrium maculatum Desf. 1799
Nederlands:nonnetjesorchis
English:Dense-flowered Orchid
Deutsch:gefleckte Waldwurz
Français:néotine maculée, néotine tachetée
Italiano:neotinea macchiata, satirione macchiato
Gyromitra infula
Nederlands:Bisschopsmuts
English:pouched false morel
Lathagrium auriforme
Synonyms:Collema auriforme
Nederlands:Parel-geleimos
Norsk:moseglye
Svenska:örongelélav
Aeonium aureum
Authority:(C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes, 1995
Synonyms:Sempervivum aureum C.Sm. ex Hornem. 1819
Asplenium aureum
Authority:Cav. 1801
Synonyms:Ceterach aureum (Cav.) Buch
Ceterach canariensis Willd.
Ceterach latifolium Fée
Grammitis aurea Sw.
Hemionitis gluckuk
Synonyms:Notholaena marantae subsp. subcordata (Cav.) Kunkel
Notholaena subcordata (Cav.) Desv.
Deutsch:Kurtzstieliger Pelzfarn
Français:Fougère laineuse
Español:Doradilla canela
Pericallis
cruenta
Synonyms:Cineraria cruenta,Senecio cruentus
Rhizopogon
cf. roseolus
English:blushing false truffle

Aeonium aureum
Authority:(C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes, 1995
Synonyms:Sempervivum aureum C.Sm. ex Hornem. 1819
Cetraria
aculeata
Nederlands:Gewoon kraakloof
English:Spiny heath lichen
Deutsch:Stachel-Hornflechte
Norsk:groptagg
Svenska:hedlav

Lobaria pulmonaria
Nederlands:Longenmos
English:Tree Lungwort
Deutsch:Echte Lungenflechte
Norsk:lungelav
Svenska:lunglav
Asplenium cf. trichomanes
Authority:Linnaeus, 1753
Nederlands:Steenbreekvaren
English:Maidenhair Spleenwort
Deutsch:Braunstieliger Streifenfarn
Norsk:Svartburkne
Svenska:Bergspring
Français:Asplénium trichomanès
Leprocaulon microscopicum
Deutsch:Spangrüne Korallenflechte