Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Lecidea laboriosa Müll.Arg.
Lecideaceae
Jason Hollinger (2018-05-03)
ID certainty: uncertain
Jason Hollinger
16262
2017-04-11
United States, Nevada, Lincoln County, Mormon Mountains, 4.5 km almost due W of Mormon Peak
36.968 -114.552 +-50m.
1250 meters (4100ft)
N-facing schist slope below mudstone cliffs
granite pebbles
Muellerella erratica
thallus endolithic; apothecia sessile to substipitate, black, rim thin black inside, outside grayish to white; epihymenium faintly bluish black, K~v; hymenium hyaline to ~inspersed below, ~brownish in thick sections, ~50-60um; hypothecium inspersed whitish; exciple dark brown outside, red-brownish inside, C- in section, K+v distinct and producing some bubbles, I- to I+v right next to hymenium and subhymenium; spores narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, ~8-12x3-3.5um; TLC weak 4-O-demethylplanaic (JPH plate 47.14 solvents B' and C on 20180501)