Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Lecania polycycla cfr.
Jason Hollinger (2018-11-17)
ID certainty: uncertain
Jason Hollinger
12592
2016-06-02
Nastassja Noell
United States, Nevada, Lincoln County, Highland Peak, upper slopes to north of western peak
37.9 -114.59 +-500m.
2800 meters (9184ft)
dense _Abies concolor_-_Pinus longaeva_ forest near top of steep north-facing limestone slope
limestone boulder under fir
Candelariella aurella
thallus pale grayish areolate, areoles scattered and small; apothecia adnate to sessile, to ~0.7mm, flat to ~convex, dark purple-brown, epruinose, with well-developed excipular ring and thin excluding thalline rim; epihymenium clear rich dark red-purple-brown; hymenium ~60um, clear; paraphyses capitate, pigment-capped, to ~7um; spores 1-septate with 2 globose cells stuck together, ~13x6.5um