What's this..?

[iconoclastica]

Branched threads of this were growing between small epiphytes in the tropical cloud forest. What organism is this? Moss, alga, or fern gametophytes? In the latter case, Trichomanes is the most likely, but I do not have arguments to base any opinion on.

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Here and there there are "egg sacks" like this:

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Anyone to know what it could be?

[Dennis]

https://www.microbehunter.com/microscop ... 15&t=17450

I downloaded that Freshwater Algae book PDF and took a quick look through. Maybe the one on page 110 is it. ??

[iconoclastica]

I can see what made you suggest this. But:
Batrachospermum is a red alga, while this, if it is an alga, would be a green one; morphologically its side branches (for lack of a better term) are highly branched, while in my specimen they are simple; and it lives in water.

[Dennis]

Yea I did not read any details, just fanned through the book.

[iconoclastica]

This is a liverwort of the genus Telaranea. Near impossible to determine species without a lot of other information.

Judging by the images that popup googling that name, it is likely to be correct.