Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Pycnora praestabilis (Nyl.) Hafellner
Pycnoraceae
Jason Hollinger (2017-05-05)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
17253
2017-05-05
United States, Utah, Garfield County, Aquarius Plateau, ca. 10 km E of Johns Valley Rd. on FH 17 near head of Sweetwater Creek on slopes N of road
37.827 -111.899 +-50m.
2650 meters (8692ft)
open conifer woodland on south-facing sandstone slopes
_Juniperus scopulorum_ wood
areoles scattered, small, subglobose to verruculose, whitish to dirty yellowish, K+/-y C- KC+r/v fleeting UV- KUV+/-y P+y/o strong; epihymenium green-black, K-; hymenium ~brownish; hypothecium dark brown, K+r/v bleeding; asci ~lecanora-type with ~thin thollus and very broad tapering K/I- axial mass which penetrates all the way through; spores ~5x2.5um; conidia ~3-4x1.5-2um, ellipsoid (not broadly)