Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Lecanora saligna cfr.
Jason Hollinger (2018-07-14)
ID certainty: to group
Jason Hollinger
17957
2017-08-15
Nastassja Noell
United States, Nevada, Elko County, Independence Mountains, North Fork Humboldt River, ca. 16 km W of Hwy. 225 on FR. 473 (ca. 1 km W of big open pit mine)
41.5598 -115.9865 +-5m.
2320 meters (7610ft)
small old grove of _Abies concolor_ and _Populus tremuloides_ ca. 50 m above creek on N-facing siliceous slope surrounded by grassland
_Abies concolor_ trunk
thallus pale gray-green, well-developed, K+y to slightly dingy C- KC~ UV- KUV- UV+y 375nm; apothecia plane to convex, pale greenish to slightly brownish to charcoal gray-tinged where exposed, lightly to distinctly pale pruinose, rims thin and soon excluding; epihymenium coarsely granular POL+, clearing in K and turning faintly olive; hymenium ~50-55um, clear; cortex indistinct, POL+ coarse esp. outer edge, < 20um; spores ~12-13x3-4um (verified twice); TLC isousnic + terpenoids (JPH plate 65.04 solvent C on 20180709)