Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Staurothele drummondii (Tuck.) Tuck.
Verrucariaceae
Jason Hollinger (2018-06-22)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
6655a
2014-10-04
Nastassja Noell
United States, Nevada, White Pine County, Great Basin National Park, Mount Wheeler, on broad ridge ca. 0.4 mi. NW of western peak
38.9905 -114.3198 +-5m.
3696 meters (12123ft)
rocky broad northwestern ridge of summit, geology a mixture of siliceous metamorphic rocks
under overhang of quartzite
thallus of deeply cracked pale brown areoles with constricted bases, epruinose; perithecia with algae, deeply immersed with black ostiole and involucrellum exposed at tip; spores brown, muriform, ~30x18um