CA, Southern California, 20070215
Pine Mt, many lichens.

Location 22
Location 23
Location 24
Location 25
Location 25b

Pine Mt road in the general area of when it first enters the conifer forest through the next half mile or so.

119°20'06.0"W +/- 24.0"
34°38'26.1"N +/- 5.0"
1925m +/- 15m

Location 22

Trunk of jeff pine; north slope; open conifer forest.

Letharia columbiana [] [voucher]

Letharia vulpina [] [voucher]

Nodobryoria abbreviata [] [voucher]

Physcia tenella [] [voucher]

THAL K+y

Xanthoria fulva [] [voucher]

Location 23

Base of white fir; same place as Location 22.

Hypogymnia "so cal imshaugii" [] [voucher]

THAL somewhat appressed, lobes somewhat flattened but still distinctly convex, lobes stubby and short, K+y
MED snow white and fairly dense and thick throughout, K-, KC+pink (v brief), C-, P-
Keys badly in all three. I have decided that it is the material Nash classifies as the sCA form of H. imshaugii, which is broad, appressed, rugose, and P-.

Melanelia elegantula [] [voucher]

MED C-

Physcia stellaris [] [voucher]

THAL loose, overlapping, lt grey, fairly uniform but for some dk grey splotching, no maculae, no pruina, lobes wider at tips to 2mm wide, white bel, short black cilia-like rhiz common at sl upturned margs, K+y
MED K-, C-, KC-
APO many, well raised, no pruina

Xanthoria polycarpa [] [voucher]

Location 24

Flannel bush; south slope; in full sun virtually all day; chaparral/scrub.

Fremontodendron californicum []

Umbilicaria phaea [] [voucher]

Xanthoria polycarpa [] [voucher]