Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Buellia chloroleuca cfr.
Jason Hollinger (2014-10-03)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
7463
2014-10-03
United States, Nevada, White Pine County, Great Basin National Park, Mount Wheeler Campground, along creek
39.0095 -114.3025 +-25m.
3000 meters (9840ft)
along creek in broad high valley with dense old _Picea engelmannii_ forest with scattered old _Populus tremuloides_, geology a mixture of siliceous metamorphic and igeneous rocks deposited by glaciers
decorticate conifer stump
thallus pale greenish, scurfy, K+y dingy to somewhat orangish-brownish C+y KC+o UV+o; exciple clearly dispersa-type with thick-walled shortly-radiating cells, weakly bluish-tinted, POL-; hymenium clear; spores 8 per ascus, walls noticeably thick but perfectly uniformly so until mature, then with very weak extra ppigment near tips so maybe weakly Calispora-type, not to barely bent, tips mostly rounded, (20)22-25(28)x10-12um; conidia bacilliform, 3-4x0.5-1.0um