Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Aspicilia peltastictoides (Hasse) K. Knudsen & Kocourk.
Megasporaceae
Jason Hollinger (2019-11-08)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
8086b
2015-05-02
United States, Nevada, Lander County, Buffalo Valley
40.4297 -117.2435 +-5m.
1418 meters (4651ft)
calcareous soil crust community ~30' above huge salt flat
noncalcareous pebble on ground in calcareous area
thallus dispersed areolate, areoles ~flat dirty chalky white, K- C- KC-, apothecia one to several per areole black with crenate/cracked thalline margin just like Lecanora flowersiana , epihymenium brownish turning reddish-brownish in K, hymenium ~80-100um maybe less on average K/I+ blue, paraphyses ~2-4 ~globose/swollen cells, spores 8 per ascus ~11x7um, conidia ~3-5x1-1.5um bacilliform, asci entirely K/I- or just a faint hint of blue