Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Lecidea plana (J. Lahm) Nyl.
Lecideaceae
Jason Hollinger (2018-05-03)
ID certainty: positive
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Jason Hollinger
6652
2014-10-04
Nastassja Noell
United States, Nevada, White Pine County, Great Basin National Park, Mount Wheeler, on broad ridge ca. 0.4 mi. NW of western peak
38.9903 -114.3194 +-5m.
3712 meters (12175ft)
rocky broad northwestern ridge of summit, geology a mixture of siliceous metamorphic rocks
quartzite
Rhizoplaca novomexicana
thallus lacking to thin scurfy white along cracks; apothecia black, contorted, with thick raised margin in one half to convex with receding thin margin in other half, epruinose; exciple aeruginose-black; hypothecium brownish immediately below hymenium to white below that; medulla I+ patchily strongly violet (Lugol's); spores 8 per ascus, oblong, ~9-12x3.5-4.5um