Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Lecanora hypoptoides cfr.
Jason Hollinger (2014-05-31)
ID certainty: uncertain
Jason Hollinger
6448b
2014-05-31
United States, Nevada, Washoe County, Reno, Hunter Lake Trail
39.4447 -119.8949 +-5m.
2359 meters (7738ft)
open basalt talus slope near top of small rise
base of weathered dead _Cercocarpus_ trunk fallen into talus
lumpy areolate pale gray dull crust, K-, apothecia black very soon convex and marginless but with prominant black rims at very early stages sometimes also with very thin thalline coating sometimes, epihymenium dark red-brown POL- K-, hymenium hyaline clear, hypothecium hyaline filled with large green trebouxioid algae, exciple brownish outside hyaline inside POL- no algae, asci with dark K/I+ blue thick tip with uniform narrow canal penetrating whole way through (clear lecanora-type), spores 8 per ascus hyaline simple ellipsoid ~8-13x2.5-3.5um