Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Lecanora agardhiana cfr.
Jason Hollinger (2018-11-16)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
12572
2016-06-02
Nastassja Noell
United States, Nevada, Lincoln County, Highland Peak, north slope near top of western peak
37.899 -114.586 +-50m.
2750 meters (9020ft)
massive limestone cliffs surrounded by _Abies concolor_-_Pinus longaeva_ forest high on steep north slope
sheltered corner in limestone cliff
epihymenium bright blue-black to violet-black, obscuring strong POL+ (insol. in K K+ greenish K/HCl+ bright bluish); hymenium ~50um, clear; subhymenium ~40um; cortex ~30um above to ~60um below, but algae lacking from patches of medulla so hard to measure in places, brown granular in streaks below to strongly bluish (K+ greenish K/HCl+ bright blue) and brown granular (insol. in K) above; paraphyses weakly expanded at tip, ~unbranched; spores 8 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid, over 8x5um but still immature