Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Verrucaria floerkeana Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
Verrucariaceae
Jason Hollinger (2017-05-10)
ID certainty: uncertain
Jason Hollinger
17418
2017-05-10
United States, Utah, San Juan County, Bridger Jack Mesa, bottom of gully ca. 200 m S of small camp on bench on N side of road ca. 14 km S on Beef Basin Road from park road
37.984 -109.622 +-50m.
1875 meters (6150ft)
steep N-facing mudstone and shale gully with huge calcareous sandstone boulders from cliff above with scattered pinyon and juniper
weakly calcareous sandstone
Verrucaria cf. falcata
thallus tiny-areolate; areoles pale brown, small, convex, most visible scattered around perithecia; perithecia huge, ~700um wide, pyriform, black, mostly superficial; involucrellum reaching half way to all the way to the base, up to ~200um thick near top; spores (23)25.7-[27.8]-29.9(31)x(15)16.2-[17.4]-18.6(20)um Q=(1.2)1.4-[1.6]-1.8(1.9) N=20