Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Caloplaca albovariegata?
Jason Hollinger (2014-10-03)
ID certainty: to group
Jason Hollinger
7431b
2014-10-03
United States, Nevada, White Pine County, Great Basin National Park, Strawberry Campground, lower part of slope across creek to the south
39.0595 -114.2745 +-25m.
2215 meters (7265ft)
bottom few hundred meters of north-facing slope of narrow east-west-running valley with dense _Pinus monophylla_ forest with scattered _Juniperus_ and _Cercocarpus_ and granitic and quartzite talus
quartzite fragment on ground
thallus bluish-gray areolate-subsquamulose, apothecia scattered substipitate, disk dark brown matte-shiny, proper margin black prominant smooth K+ purple, thalline margin ragged ~poorly developed K+ purple, epihymenium brown POL- K-, hymenium ~85um hyaline clear, subhymenium ~90um inspersed hyaline, algae continuous in rims and under hymenium, spores 8 per ascus ~15-18x8-9um septum ~2.5um, cortex ~20-25um gray granular K+ purple