Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Phaeophyscia nigricans (Flörke) Moberg
Physciaceae
Jason Hollinger (2014-10-10)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
8122
2014-10-10
United States, Nevada, Pershing County, Humboldt Range, Black Canyon, southwest-facing slope near final switchbacks of faint mining track at head of canyon
40.5468 -118.193 +-5m.
2449 meters (8033ft)
open southwest-facing slope with dense _Artemisia_ scrub and scattered junipers; limestone scree
bare wood of trunk of old _Juniperus_
Amandinea punctata
K- pale to brownish green-gray narrow-lobed, no hairs found, marginal soralia with conspicuous cortical flaps, whitish-tannish below with simple pale stubby rhizines, upper cortex paraplect. with large globose cells, medulla loose prosoplect., lower cortex paraplect. with smaller less-distinct globose cells grading into narrowly-prosoplect. rhizines