Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Staurothele areolata (Ach.) Lettau
Verrucariaceae
Jason Hollinger (2014-10-09)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
7676
2014-10-09
United States, Nevada, Pershing County, Humboldt Range, Black Canyon, obvious black-stained vertical wash in steep tall cliff north of road ~100 m past switchback (~600 m past fork)
40.5419 -118.2035 +-5m.
2035 meters (6675ft)
vertical black-stained drainage channel in tall south-facing rhyolite cliff; _Artemisia_, desert scrub and scattered junipers
drainage channel in vertical granite weakly HCl+
Psorotichia numidella var. flageyna
areoles subglobose pruinose brown to blackish, perithecia semi-immersed, exciple hyaline below dark above, involucrellum dark and thick at top only protruding through thallus surface, algae in hymenium