Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Aspicilia americana B. de Lesd.
Megasporaceae
Jason Hollinger (2017-02-23)
ID certainty: uncertain
Jason Hollinger
13151
2016-06-14
Nastassja Noell
United States, Nevada, Lincoln County, Mount Irish, high on N ridge
37.646 -115.401 +-50m.
2600 meters (8528ft)
high N slope with some large limestone outcrops and open conifer forest with _Abies concolor_, _Pinus longaeva_, _P. monophylla_, _Juniperus osteosperma_, _J. scopulorum_ and _Artemisia nova_
quartzite vein in limestone talus
thallus areolate to rimose-areolate near margins, areoles flat to weakly convex, variably brownish to greenish to grayish, prothallus present in places as thin black snaky-radiating bits, P-; apothecia raised, ~round, ~large, epruinose, rims pale gray mostly concolorous with thallus; epihymenium green; hymenium 125-170um, I+b-r; subhymenium I+b-r; paraphyses moniliform; spores 8 per ascus, ~23x16um; conidia 13-23um