CA, North Coast, 20070223
Shelter Cove and Russian Gulch, mostly lichens.
Shelter Cove.
Location 37
Rocks just to south across little creek at beach on north side of
Shelter Cove. One in particular is above high tide and is separate from cliffs; climb on top and all sorts of cool lichens covering all parts. Fully exposed, but never submerged, probably getting spray during big storms.
124°04'44.5"W +/- 1.3"
40°02'41.1"N +/- 4.9"
6m +/- 4m
black-eye green crust
black-eye thick-rim lime crust
black-eye thick-rim lt-grey crust
brown-eye yell-green crust
orange-eye orange crust
yellow-eye endolithic crust
yellow-eye yellow crust
Location 37b
Scrub along cliffs and road leading down to beach.
Myrica californica []
| | LF | | alt, clust erect at end of st, lin-ellip, serr, glab, dk green, shiny, lter bel, sess gland ab and bel, ~50x10+5mm, no odor when crushed |
Location 38
Mossy maples on lower part of Telegraph Creek Road. On north slope,
overlooking creek. Maples are actually just below the road , but limbs etc are fully accesible along a 30 foot stretch of road not far downhill from turnoff. Clearly fairly shady and v damp.
124°04'08.9"W +/- 2.5"
40°02'38.2"N +/- 2.0"
130m +/- 20m
Acer macrophyllum []
Flavoparmelia caperata [] [voucher]
Ochrolechia []
| | THAL | | grey, broad, ruffled, all black bel, cilia, pillow soredia, K+ y, KC-, C- |
| | MED | | K+ y to sl orange, KC-, C- |
| | THAL | | grey, shiny, smooth, large lin soralia of stacked coarse grey soredia, a few phyllidia as well, pale to tan bel w broad brown felty veins and somewhat merging short tufted dk rhiz |
Almost intermediate between soredia and isidia, but can only be
P. collina.
Location 39
Upper part of Telegraph Creek Road just before it ends at main road
into Shelter Cove. Oaks; more exposed but still firmly in the fog belt.
124°03'5.5"W +/- 1.9"
40°02'15.9"N +/- 1.5"
290m +/- 10m
| | THAL | | sinewy, green on one side, small patchy soralia along margins |
| | THAL | | narrow flat stiff brs grad narrowing to v fine points, marg round to ellip soralia |
Tuckermannopsis orbata [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | olive-brown, frilly, smooth, abundant prominant black marg pycnidia, no rhiz or cilia |
Location 39b
Among power lines a mile or so up main road.
Ochrolechia oregonensis [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | whitish, verrucose, thick, C+ v red in places |
| | APO | | pinkish-yellish, lecanorine, v thick, epihymen and hymen clear, alg only in rims not below |
| | SPORE | | clear, large, 1 cell |
Sphaerophorus globosus []
black-eye biatorine lt-grey crust
messy grey apothecial crust
Russian Gulch State Park.
Location 40
Fence around sinkhole. Fully exposed to sun and fog and wind; on
headlands. One of the Ramalina and the Cladonia were somewhat sheltered in cracks of the fence.
123°48'35.6"W +/- 3.8"
39°19'48.6"N +/- 3.9"
15m +/- 5m
| | THAL | | | squam | | finely sorediate below, at base and sl up stalk, small 1-2mm, sl thickish |
| podetia | | blunt, to 2mm thick, powdery soredia covering whole |
|
| | APO | | bright red pillow at top of st |
Hypogymnia heterophylla [] [voucher]
According to
Ways, that's all I need.
| | THAL | | v appress, tips inflated but overall appearssomewhat flattened, quite whitish, black underside visible from above along with lots of black splotches, tips darkened brown, regular branching ("sinuous"?), lobes to 2-2.5mm wide, not perforate (but young), lots of pycnidia, no isidia or soredia or lobules, not esp constricted, weakly rugose in center |
Matches fairly well. Process of elimination for P- fertile ones:
H. canadensis and
H. metaphysodes flat at tips;
H. inactiva not appressed;
H. occidentalis has lobules. Latter is the closest second choice.
Kaernefeltia californica [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | v dk brown above, paler bel, sl flattened, man black pycnidia, highly br'd |
| | APO | | large, disk, only one present, at end of br, marg fibrillose |
Ochrolechia
Ramalina "trevors coastal leptocarpha" [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | d tuft of broken flat brs, some > 3mm wide, some perforate, soredia in broadly ellip-circ soralia, some bearing tufts of fibrils |
| | MED | | white, P+ orange (slow) |
Tuckermannopsis orbata [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | finely divided and crinkled, olive-brown above, shiny and wrinkly with some warts on surface, conspic pale bel w quite a few rhiz, margins loaded with isidia and lobules |
| | APO | | quite a few, gnurbly rims |
| | THAL | | shrubby, inflated/constricted, black at v base, pap esp "on top", v d fibrillose, scattered isidiate soralia, cortex thin and tough |
Location 40b
Shrubs near fence above.
Berberis darwinii []
| | LF | | alt, clusters of three, 15x10+2-3mm, glab, thick, dk green shiny ab, lt yell-green dull bel, oblong, sharply dent and spiny, spines ~1mm |
| | STIP | | pair sharp spines, 2-3mm |
| | INFL | | d rac, 30+ fls, bracts 3mm, red-pink, glab, axis purp-pink, pedicels 6-7mm at 45deg |
| | SEP | | 8 (2 + 3 + 3), spread, vivid or-yell, largest 10x3mm oblong boats |
| | PET | | 6, erect, free, form tube, same color as sep, 7x5mm, ellip-oblong, 2 glands at base of petals inside |
| | OV | | 1, sup, ellipsoid, glab, many ovules, placenta on one side |
Same as one we saw on Cruce de Lagos in Argentina.
| | THAL | | v thin and stretched, olive to black, matte, wrinkly, no isidia at all, naked below |
| | APO | | abundant, min (0.2-0.5mm), not pruinose, black to reddish |
Keys to
C. nigrescens,
C. subnigrescens and some varieties of
C. pulcellum. I haven't sectioned an apo yet, so can't tell.
Location 41
Fence under trees to the left of parking area for headlands.
Overlooking inlet at edge of bluff, but shaded at least from sun; probably also not as windy as the sinkhole was either. Trees are all conifers (cypress and pine).
123°48'23.3"W +/- 3.1"
39°19'45.7"N +/- 1.0"
15m +/- 5m
Flavoparmelia caperata [] [voucher]
| | MED | | K+y v weak, KC-, C-, P+r/o |
Parmotrema reticulata [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | narr overlapping flat lobes, grey, conspic retic pseudocyphellae, black bel w v abundant weakly side-br'd rhiz easily visible from above protruding |
| | THAL | | ruffled, wide lobes, even lt grey above, black w sparse rhiz bel, scattered 1-2mm fine cilia, soredia fine in pretty marginal ellip lip-shaped soralia, K+ yell, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | whitish, K+ yell to sl orangish, KC-, C- |
| | THAL | | rel flat, grey, some white maculae, no isidia or soredia (too young), black below with short rhiz except a brown zone near tips, abundant short black cilia, K+ yell, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | white, K+ yell to sl orange, C-, KC-, P+ orange |
Keys to either
P. chinense or
P. crinitum due to lack of soredia/isidia/apothecia.
Location 42
North trail near first junction. Bench over valley. Relatively young
open redwood forest at least not as deep and dark as Abe Wouk Grove earlier. These were found on the base of mature redwoods.
123°47'27.7"W +/- 18.9"
39°20'5.7"N +/- 4.9"
37m +/- 12m
Cardamine californica sinuata []
| | LF | | caul lvs pin 3-5 lflts rhomb-cuneate distal dent, rhiz lvs simple v cord deeply cren renif |
Gaultheria shallon []
| | ST | | zigzag, reddish, v min curved hairy & lter bel, dk green evergreen, scattered long thick red gland hairy |
| | LF | | alt, lance, fine serr, sl cord, acute, 100x65+4mm, sl scab on midv |
Ledum glandulosum []
| | LF | | alt, lance-ellip, 55x20+6mm, evergreen, lter & gland & v fine v min tom bel, sl glauc bel |
| | INFL | | rac| pedicels | | long, recurved, gland, tom |
|
| | FR | | 5 orange segs att at top |
| | THAL | | narrow lobes, isidia along margins, large bald bumps below, v retic-ridged |
Polypodium scouleri []
Pseudocyphellaria anthraspis [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | net-ridged, no isidia/soredia, many stalked apothecia, conspic white raised pseudocyphellae bel |
Rhododendron macrophyllum []
| | LF | | 150x50+15mm, ellip-oblance, acute, long-wedge, evergreen, glab |
Sphaerophorus globosus [] [voucher]
Trillium ovatum ovatum []
Viola sempervirens []
| | FL | | all yell w dk veins inside |
Curtis corrected my ID by sight. I'd said it was
V. glabella.
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