Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Lempholemma cladodes (Tuck.) Zahlbr.
Lichinaceae
Jason Hollinger (2018-09-29)
ID certainty: uncertain
Jason Hollinger
12575
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
Lathagrium fuscovirens, Rusavskia elegans
branches spreading to erect, terete, ~400um wide, forming hormocysts in cup-like structures at tips of a few branches; anatomy loose thin reticulate hyphae; photobiont chains of Nostoc ; hormocysts globular packets of unchained Nostoc in gelatinous sheath