Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Aspicilia arizonica Owe-Larss. & A. Nordin
Megasporaceae
Jason Hollinger (2015-05-04)
ID certainty: uncertain
Jason Hollinger
15920
2015-05-04
United States, Nevada, Pershing County, Humboldt Range, Lone Mountain
40.3345 -118.1916 +-5m.
1821 meters (5973ft)
north slope at bottom of valley, dominated by _Artemisia tridentata_ with some scattered _Juniperus osteospermum_, geology a mix of rhyolite / tuff and granitic intrusives
rhyolite under juniper
Rhizocarpon eupetraeum
areoles dispersed on fimbriate prothallus at edge but mostly very contiguous, bluish-grayish to whitish, areoles angular chinky, K+y weak P+o weak; apothecia irregular inset, ~epruinose, black; epihymenium golden-brown; hymenium ~90-125um, I+b-r; subhymenium I+b; margin I- to I+b on inside edge; paraphyses strongly moniliform; spores 8 per ascus, ~18-22x13-15um; conidia ~10-16um