Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Sarcogyne hypophaea (Nyl.) Arnold
Acarosporaceae
Jason Hollinger (2019-02-25)
ID certainty: uncertain
Jason Hollinger
8227
2014-10-11
United States, Nevada, Pershing County, Humboldt Range, Black Canyon, small talus field at base of rugged complex of limestone cliffs on south side of road
40.5424 -118.2173 +-5m.
1784 meters (5852ft)
small limestone talus field at foot of steep north-facing limestone cliff
limestone talus block
thallus endolithic; apothecia sessile, flat, flexuose, ~crowded, ~0.5-0.9 mm; disk smooth, red-black; margin thick, shiny, black, deploying in segments which fuse leaving joint-lines, internally black in outer 25-30um and hyaline inside that; epihymenium red-brown, clear; hymenium hyaline ~70um; hypothecium white; spores many per ascus, oblong to subcylincrical, ~3-4x1-1.5um