Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Candelariella aurella (Hoffm.) Zahlbr.
Candelariaceae
Jason Hollinger (2014-10-10)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
8137a
2014-10-10
United States, Nevada, Pershing County, Humboldt Range, Black Canyon, large outcrop atop ridge at top of faint mining track at head of canyon
40.5475 -118.1949 +-5m.
2449 meters (8033ft)
large rhyolite outcrop high on east-west ridge
side of limestone boulder
Lecidella patavina, Staurothele drummondii
areoles yellow waxy convex but not lobate ~scattered, apothecia with almost no proper margin and thick crenate incomplete thalline margin, parathecium to ~25um at top very indistinct fan-shaped with distinct complete stipe, hymenium ~50-60um, paraphyses some capitate to ~7um, spores 8 per ascus ~oblong-ellipsoid ~14-16x4-5um