Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Megalaria laureri (Th. Fr.) Hafellner
Ramalinaceae
Jason Hollinger (2019-04-30)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
22605
2019-04-30
United States, North Carolina, Haywood County, White Oak Mountain
35.6503 -83.0499 +-5m.
970 meters (3182ft)
mature hardwood forest high on steep north-facing slope
trunk of _Acer rubrum_
thallus white, K+y C- P- UV- KUV+y; apothecia black, soon convex and ~marginless; epihymenium dark purple, K-; hymenium red-purplish, K-; hypothecium red-purple-brown on top (K-) to golden-brown below (K-); exciple bluish (K-), radiating thick hyphae; paraphyses not separating even in K, with capitate tips; spores 8 per ascus, hyaline, 1-septate, ellipsoid to narrowly-ellipsoid, ~13-21x6um