CA, North Coast, 20070222
Lost Coast, mostly lichens.
Location 34
Brushy Mt in Lost Coast; 0.4mi west of ridge field where last bldg is
(0.1mi or less past springs). Cleared hillside with 2 big v mossy oaks on the north slope. Right where road bends left (going west). I think this is called the Smith-Etter Road these days.
124°07'41.1"W +/- 3.2"
40°12'58.8"N +/- 2.4"
340m +/- 20m
| | THAL | | well br'd, areolate cortex, no soredia, no prim scales, stem scales abundant, stems slit open many places esp in axils, K+y/o, br tips P+r |
| | APO | | abundant, tiny tan pillows, stem tips, P- |
| | THAL | | grey, broad, ruffled, pillow soralia, all black bel, K+y |
| | THAL | | shiny, smooth, grey, black dots along edge, white bel w low broad brown veins and tufted short brown to black rhiz, no soredia or isidia or phyllidia |
| | APO | | black, wider than long |
Fails in
Brodo and
Nash, but
Ways keys it very convincingly to an odd nonsorediate form of
P. collina.
Pseudocyphellaria anthraspis [] [voucher]
Location 35
Wilder Ridge Road south of Honeydew. On mossy road bank on sharp set of
switchbacks as it climbs steeply up to Wilder Ridge after crossing Honeydew Creek. North slope, v damp and shady.
124°06'25.1"W +/- 2.5"
40°13'4.4"N +/- 4.9"
225m +/- 15m
Leptogium corniculatum [] [voucher]
Location 36
King Peak Road on east slope of Horse Mt Ridge. On east slope in dense
mixed old forest; steep slope, v moist rain forest (ferns and moss on trees). Just along the road over about a half-mile stretch.
124°04'9.5"W +/- 6.4"
40°07'34.9"N +/- 9.8"
490m +/- 10m
Adiantum jordanii []
| | LF | | 2-tern, segs rhomb-ov, v sl cord, glauc bel, glab ab, v few scattered brown multicellular brisstles bel and on stipe |
Arbutus menziesii []
Betula occidentalis []
Blechnum spicant []
Cladonia scabriuscula [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | well br'd, areolate cortex, no soredia, no prim squam, stem scales mostly on one side, no apo, pycnidia dk brown at pointy br tips, K-, KC-, C-, P+ o/r |
| | GEN | | scattered evenly in algal film on mossy roadcut, moist, shady |
| | CAP | | club, whitish to v sl tan, sl wrinkled length-wise, 8x1mm |
Peltigera membranacea [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | shiny, grey, sl broad blistered appearance, thinly tom near tips, marg turned sharply down, no soredia or isidia or phyllidia, pale bel w narrow raised veins and discrete paint-brush-tipped rhiz, rhiz tom |
Brodo and
Ways key clearly to
P. membranacea, but
Nash might key to
P. ponojensis instead (except margins are turned down, not up).
Pilophorus acicularis [] [voucher]
Pityrogramma triangularis triangularis []
| | ST | | smooth, shiny, red-brown |
| | LF | | pentagonal, glab ab, gold farinose bel |
| | SOR | | scattered all over bel |
Polypodium calirhiza []
Quercus berberidifolia []
Pseudotsuga menziesii []
Sphaerophorus globosus [] [voucher]
Umbellularia californica []
Vaccinium ovatum []
| | GEN | | shrub, in dk damp areas, striking lvs |
| | LF | | alt, lance, imbricate (overlapping in plane). 45deg forward, evergreen, thick, dk green shiny ab, lter bel, pub bel and on midv ab, not glandular, v sharply serr, 40x15+1-2mm |
| | INFL | | few in axils, pedicel jointed |
| | SEP | | 5, delt, joined at base, persist |
| | FR | | berry, inf ov, glab, red-black, ~6mm, many seeds |
Woodwardia fimbriata []
| | LF | | pin-pinfid, segs sharply serr, veins anastomosing, huge, glab |
| | SOR | | lin, in 2 rows, 1 either side of midv, end-to-end, indusiate (hotdog-like) |
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