Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Candelariella aurella (Hoffm.) Zahlbr.
Candelariaceae
Jason Hollinger (2018-11-17)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
12591
2016-06-02
Nastassja Noell
United States, Nevada, Lincoln County, Highland Peak, upper slopes to north of western peak
37.9 -114.59 +-500m.
2800 meters (9184ft)
dense _Abies concolor_-_Pinus longaeva_ forest near top of steep north-facing limestone slope
limestone boulder under fir
Lecidella stigmatea
thallus absent; apothecia to 0.8mm, scattered and round to becoming dense and a bit contorted, rim thin; hymenium ~65um; parathecium flat to occasionally plunging into stipe (one out of several apothecium checked); paraphyses to ~4um, scarcely expanded; spores 8 per ascus, mostly ellipsoid to ovoid but a few narrowly bent-oblong, (13.0)13.6-16.0(17.0)x(4.5)4.9-6.1(7.0)um Q=(2.1)2.3-3.1(3.8) N=20, avg. 14.8x5.5um Q=2.7, 17.0x5.0 14.0x6.0 13.0x5.5 16.5x6.0 16.0x5.0 13.5x5.5 15.0x5.5 14.5x7.0 14.5x5.0 15.0x5.5 13.0x5.0 13.5x6.0 15.0x5.0 15.0x5.5 17.0x4.5 15.5x5.0 14.5x5.5 14.5x6.0 14.0x5.0 15.0x5.5