Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Endocarpon loscosii Müll.Arg.
Verrucariaceae
Jason Hollinger (2018-05-24)
ID certainty: positive
Nastassja Noell
3842
2018-05-20
Jason Hollinger
United States, Nevada, Lincoln County, Delamar Dry Lake, Black Point Reservoir hills
37.3522 -114.9353 +-5m.
1385 meters (4543ft)
near the edge of large playa dominated by struggling _Atriplex confertifolia_
playa soil
thallus brown, squamulose, lobed margins; lower side with white rhizines, lower cortex difficult to see due to squamules immersed in substrate, but appears pale, is not dark; perithecia with globular green algae; asci with 2 spores; spores brown, muriform, 12-20 cells, up to 35x23um