Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Toninia philippea (Mont.) Timdal
Ramalinaceae
Jason Hollinger (2017-05-05)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
17265
2017-05-05
United States, Utah, Garfield County, Aquarius Plateau, ca. 10 km E of Johns Valley Rd. on FH 17 near head of Sweetwater Creek on slopes N of road
37.827 -111.899 +-50m.
2650 meters (8692ft)
open conifer woodland on south-facing sandstone slopes
shaded vertical calcareous sandstone
thallus rimose-areolate, rusty brownish, dull, thin, K- C- KC- UV- KUV- P-; epihymenium green-black, POL-, K-; hymenium ~60um, clear; exciple dark red-brown to paler brown underneath, POL+ not clearing in K, K-; hypothecium pale brown, POL+ not clearing in K, K-, plunging down; medulla white, POL+ not clearing in K; asci bacidia-type with K/I- tapering axial mass making almost all the way through; spores 8 per ascus, 1-septate, hyaline, constricted polycycla-like, ~10-12x5-6um