CA, Southern California, 20070213
Santa Monica Mts and Pine Mt, many lichens.
On Rte 23 / Mulholland halfway between the 101 and 1, just north of where Mulholland splits off and heads west. This is the turnoff on the east side of the road by a rock cropping. Chaparral mostly of chamise and scrub oak with a few ceanothus, silk tassel, etc. Fairly flat spot near top of ridge.
118°52'14.4"W +/- 1.2"
34°05'22.9"N +/- 0.5"
485m +/- 15m
Location 1
On trunk and branches of chamise. Slightly shaded by foliage.
Flavoparmelia caperata [] [voucher]
Flavopunctelia soredica [] [voucher]
Physcia adscendens []
Location 2
On a silk tassel next to Location 1.
Flavoparmelia caperata [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | adnate, widening lobes 1-3mm wide depending how you measure the lobules, lt grey, weak maculae, no pruina, white bel, short black cilia-like rhiz common at margs, K+y |
| | APO | | many, pruinose, well raised |
Ramalina "sorediate thread tips" [] [voucher]
I'll describe all three here:
| | THAL | | small (1-2 cm wide), well-br'd, brs widest at bot to 1-2mm wide, thin and flattened, not particularly muscular, sometimes perforate, no soredia or isidia along main brs (either laminal or marginal), tips finely lacerate with soredia sometimes, no well-delimited or hood/lip-shaped soralia |
Location 3
Exposed igneous outcrop. Full sun all day.
blue-ish moonglow
candelaria?
grey sunken-disk crust
lobate caloplaca
lobate lecanora?
lumpy grey crust
xanthoparmelia
yellow acarospora
Location 4
Shaded N face of same igneous outcrop in Location 3.
lobate lecanora?
lumpy grey crust
very apothecial grey crust
xanthoparmelia
Location 5
Dead scrub oak. Slightly shaded by neighboring chaparral.
Location 6
Dead scrub oak. More exposed than Location 5.
Ramalina farinacea []
Location 7
Base of chamise. Slightly shaded by foliage.
Flavoparmelia caperata [] [voucher]
Flavopunctelia flaventior [] [voucher]
Ramalina "sorediate thread tips" [] [voucher]
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus [] [voucher]
Location 8
Dead hard wood. Quite exposed.
Flavopunctelia flaventior []
Location 9
Live oak just west of where Mulholland splits off of 23 (not far from Location 1-8). On base of trunk and lowest limbs, vaguely shaded at all times. Chaparral with a few scattered big coastal live oaks in low spots.
118°52'33.0"W +/- 6.0"
34°05'19.9"N +/- 0.5"
475m +/- 15m
Flavoparmelia caperata [] [voucher]
Flavopunctelia flaventior [] [voucher]
Ramalina sorediate-thread-tips [] [voucher]
These were farther along same road.
Ceanothus spinosus []
| | GEN | | shrub, large, showy, fragrant |
| | LF | | alt, oblance, sl retuse, thick, shiny ab, whitish and v rugose bel, 12x8+3mm |
| | INFL | | axils, d cyme/pan, peduncle ~5mm, pedicels 6-7mm & white |
| | SEP | | 5, white, ov, spread, 2.5x1.5mm |
| | PET | | 5, claw, small, blade 1mm rhomb, claw ~2mm, spread/ascend |
| | STAM | | 5, fil 2mm, white, erect, alt sep |
| | OV | | inf, black gland disk ab |
| | STIG | | ~2mm, 3 fork, white to purpish at tips, not swollen |
I giess I keyed it to either
C. spinosis and
C. palmeri, the latter not belonging here.
Ribes malvaceum viridifolium []
| | LF | | 3 lobed maple, bright green, v rug & d short clear gland-pub & sp puber ab, v r veins & gland-pub & v d puber bel, min tooth, 20x20+10mm |
| | INFL | | rac, term and on short side brs, gland-pub, 40x20mm, pedicel 2-3mm, bracts 1/2-3mm |
| | SEP | | 4x2.8mm, white inside, pink outside, gland-pub |
| | STAM | | sl excl, at near top of hyp tube |
| | STYLE | | div half way, v pub |
Location 10
In lea of granite outcrop formed by roadcut of Hwy 1, ocean side, just
east of Sycamore Cove.
119°00'27.0"W +/- 6.0"
34°03'59.7"N +/- 5.0"
15m +/- 5m
Coreopsis gigantea []
| | ST | | 1 thick trunk, to 20dm |
| | INFL | | long lfy peduncles, lvs v reduced, 1 term head |
| | PHYL | | 1 main series w 3 long spreading guys below, 2x15mm and 4x14mm, inner yellish ab |
| | RECEPT | | chaffy, 1 yellish scale per fl, flat |
| | RAY | | br yell, 9x30mm, 23, ster/female, ellip, toothed |
| | OV | | v comp, ov-ellip, glab |
Matthiola incana []
| | GEN | | clumped peren, fragrant |
| | LF | | many, 200x20mm, lin-lance, wavy-toothed (v dist and soft), conspic whitish stell, thickish (esp midv bel) |
| | INFL | | short rac well ab lvs, fls and frs erect/ascend, ped 10-25mm |
| | SEP | | 12-15mm, purpish, stell |
| | PET | | 4, free, deep purp, 16x13mm, obov limb, clawed, glab, throat/claw yell (same len as sep) |
| | STIG | | v tiny, 2 rounded lobes atop ov |
| | FR | | erect, lin, 2 chamb, 100x4x3mm, stell, stiff, 1 row seeds per chamb, sl dors comp |
| | SEED | | flat, round, wing 0.5mm, 3-4mm |
Location 11
Turnoff about 0.5 to 1.0 miles north of Pine Mt Summit on 33. Old road
heads off on outside around roadcut; big turnoff just past on inside. Mixed forest, mostly doug fir and oak. Not very open, but not deeply shaded either. On north facing slope in broad shallow gully.
119°22'39.0"W +/- 6.0"
34°39'31.7"N +/- 5.0"
1450m +/- 25m
Hypogymnia "so cal imshaugii" [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | broad flattened closely appressed lobes, no perforations, v rugose in center, no soredia or isidia or lobules |
| | MED | | all white, K-, KC- (or v faint yellowish pinkish or something), C-, P+o/r |
Ways doesn't acknowledge the possiblity of P+ o/r.
Nash calls all the above
H. imshaugii simply stating that this group probably represents several species. In particular,
Nash claims the sCA version is broad, appressed, rugose, and P-.
| | THAL | | lobes to 3mm & widening, pruinose, adnate, K+y |
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