Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University (LSU:Lichens)
LSU00195309
56738fa8-f6de-4d7e-8fa2-849ab7de3190
162310
Pyrenocollema halodytes (Nyl.) R.C. Harris
Pezizomycotina_family_incertae_sedis
Wayne P. Armstrong
1312
1991-12-20
20 December 1991
United States, California, San Diego, Point Loma-tidepool area of Cabrillo National Monument.
32.668813 -117.243893 +-350m. WGS84
lat/long = on label
Middle Intertidal (barnacle) zone. Associated with Limpets, chitons and acorn barnacles, also with algae ralfsia and pelvetia, numerous perithecia (appearing like tiny volcanic cones)
On large wave-battered metavolcanic/ granitic boulder.
numerous perithecia (appearing like tiny volcanic cones); surrounding thallus not evident (not aerolate as in V. maura); Perthecia minute (0.2mm or less); Ascospores with septa (4-5 μm) -- too small for V. mucosa? paraphyses & walls of asci not evident; symbiotic algal cells about 18-20 um in diameter -- with general spherical shape of trebouxia.