Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Caloplaca pinicola H. Magn.
Teloschistaceae
Jason Hollinger (2017-08-15)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
17960
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
deeply shaded rotten conifer log and twigs
thallus medium ~bluish gray; soralia abundant, discrete small and round but becoming essentially confluent; soredia ~bluish, K+ lilac in part, ~15-25um; apothecia rare, disk ~orange, proper margin absent, thalline margin gray and well-developed