Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Caloplaca albovariegata group
Jason Hollinger (2018-11-18)
ID certainty: to group
Jason Hollinger
17411
2017-05-10
United States, Utah, San Juan County, Bridger Jack Mesa, bottom of gully ca. 200 m S of small camp on bench on N side of road ca. 14 km S on Beef Basin Road from park road
37.984 -109.622 +-50m.
1875 meters (6150ft)
steep N-facing mudstone and shale gully with huge calcareous sandstone boulders from cliff above with scattered pinyon and juniper
noncalcareous sandstone
Lecidella patavina
thallus thick, verrucose-areolate, whitish, K-; apothecia black, epruinose, thin black inner rim; cortex and proper margin gray-granular K+v around apothecia; epihymenium brownish, clear, K-; hymenium ~120um; spores 8 per ascus, ~13-18x5-6um, septum very thin and poorly developed to even absent in many spores