CA, North Coast, 20070224
Mendocino Coast, mostly lichens.
Location 43
Pygmy Forest. About 1mi east of Little River - Albion fork. Along side
of road among young low conifers). Road running NE-SW at this point; fairly open. Very flat here.
123°43'3.7"W +/- 6.3"
39°15'50.4"N +/- 4.9"
165m +/- 15m
Arctostaphylos mendocinoensis []
| | LF | | Alt, dk green shiny, sl lter w sp spread bristles bel, 12x8+2mm, serrate |
| | INFL | | glab, 2 brs, ~dense, pedicels 3mm & glab & red, nod, bracts scales |
| | OV | | sup, v d white hairy on top |
Kaernefeltia californica [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | grey, broad, ruffled, pillow soralia, pure black bel, K+y |
Pinus contorta []
| | THAL | | pendent, black at base through nearly tips of primary brs, pap, fibrillose all over, tough thickcortex, isidia scattered in groups of 1 to few, brownish to straw-color, round, no cracks |
| | MED | | thin, white, lax, K+y-r, C-, CK- |
| | THAL | | sl pendent, inflated/constricted, black at v base, v pap all over, not fibrillose, scattered soralia v rarely w isidia, cortex thin and tough |
| | MED | | white, thick, lax, K- |
Chemistry is wrong, but way too papillose to be
U. glabrata, and no isidia means not
U. cornuta or
U. fragilescens. What is
U. deformis like?
| | THAL | | shrubby, black at v base, pap, fibrillose in places, tough thick cortex, isidia and soredia in tiny scattered soralia, straw-color, round, no cracks |
| | MED | | thin, white, K-, C-, CK- |
Point Navarro SP.
Location 44
Scrub on bluff edge. Very exposed to sun, wind, fog.
123°46'7.6"W +/- 3.1"
39°12'1.3"N +/- 4.9"
22m +/- 7m
| | THAL | | v adnate, lobes min and short, whitish, maculate, epruinose, bumpy to lobulate, tan bel w v abundant short rhiz, a few short black cilia-like rhiz, no soredia, K+y |
| | APO | | many, lobulate marg, v constrict bel, no pruina |
Weird!
No soredia or isidia.
Ramalina "trevors coastal leptocarpha" [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | lichen, on limbs of shrub at edge of seacliff |
| | THAL | | sparingly branched, flat to terete, "muscular", to 1.5mm wide, broad round discrete farinose soralia along marg, some soralia erupting into a bunch of fine cyl radiating fibrils |
| | MED | | white, v thin, K+ faint yell, P+ red-orange, KC-, C- |
This is a very atypical specimen if it really is
R. farinacea.
Viola adunca []
| | LF | | round-ov, obtuse, cord, shall dist cren, glab |
| | FL | | violet, white at base, lat petals white bearded, spur curved/hooked |
Location 44b
Low wind-swept scrub farther back from edge. I collected a few tiny
Ramalina from here; probably a few ended up above.
black-eye greenish crust
On fence post.
Location 45
Ocean side of rocks. Very exposed to sun, wind, fog.
123°46'7.5"W +/- 3.1"
39°11'58.8"N +/- 4.9"
22m +/- 7m
| | MED | | white with obvious strands present as clear spots in cross section |
Niebla laevigata []
Ochrolechia parella (only rock-dwelling esorediate one in Nash) []
black-script endolithic crust
black-eye biatorine lime crust
Thelomma mammosum []
Lecanora pinguis []
black-eye lecideine white-stain crust
sedum
Location 46
Top to south/southeast side of rocks. Very exposed to sun, but in lea
from moist air off the ocean.
123°46'7.5"W +/- 3.1"
39°12'0.0"N +/- 7.3"
22m +/- 7m
Niebla homalea []
Flavoparmelia baltimorensis [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | broad v yell-green flat lobes, retic maculate, wrinkled in center, K-, KC+ gold, C-, pustulate-isidiate (rough coralloid almost sorediate but clearly corticate structures all over center), black below except near tips where rhiz get shorter |
| | MED | | white, thick, K-(or weak yell), KC+ weak pink, C-, P+r |
Thought for sure it was
Xanthoparmelia for the longest time, but it didn't key correctly no matter what I did. The description for
F. b. is just about perfect, except the KC+ pink reaction is subtle (though I had noticed it before I went explicitly looking for it). The pustulate isidia are really distinctive, aren't they?
| | THAL | | K+r, brs not terete, soredia/blastidia all over margins |
This was on the cliff above the PCH on the north side of Navarro Inlet.
Dichelostemma capitatum capitatum []
| | INFL | | scapose umbel, erect, bracts purplish above, pedicels much < bracts, 7+ fls |
| | PET | | tube < lobes, lobes ~45deg |
| | STAM | | 3 < 3, 6 apps form white crown |
Location 47
South side of Navarro inlet. Along Hwy 1, just uphill southbound from
crossing creek. Ramalina menziesii totally covering conifers on north side of road. North slope; damp and shady here.
123°44'53.7"W +/- 3.8"
39°11'46.6"N +/- 1.0"
20m +/- 10m
Ramalina menziesii []
Location 48
South side of Navarro inlet, a little beyond Location 47. On road bank to
SE. Damp and shady young conifer forest; steep NW slope.
123°45'7.5"W +/- 2.5"
39°11'47.1"N +/- 2.0"
30m +/- 10m
Ceanothus jepsonii jepsonii []
| | GEN | | prostrate to weakly ascending, on road bank |
| | LF | | ellip-lance, rounded, wedge, spiny toothed 100%, shiny dk green ab, lter bel |
| | THAL | | | squamules | | mostly disintigrated but some to 4mm, deeply div, yellish bel near base, not sorediate |
| podetia | | to 1.5mm, few br, finely sorediate ab to sl coarse bel grading into squamules, corticate near base, some cups with dk brown pycnidia |
|
Peltigera membranacea [] [voucher]
| | THAL | | shiny, grey, blistered, thinly tom near tips, curled up now that it's dry, pale bel w narr sharply raised pale veins, rhiz pale discrete but tom, no soredia or isidia or phyllidia |
Location 49
North of Salt Point. MP 46.43 to 44.90 has lots of crags covered with
Niebla, many accessible from road with little to no trespassing required.
Iris douglasiana []
In damp field.
| | INFL | | bracts 2 & opp, lower 70x12mm |
| | PET | | tube 21mm & abruptly flaring, violet w dker veins, 50x10mm |
| | STYLE | | 50x10mm, crest 15x10mm |
Niebla homalea []
Location 49b
Salt Point Park. Much Niebla homalea.
Niebla homalea []
Viola sempervirens []
Curtis corrected my ID by sight. I'd said it was V. glabella, possibly V. sempervirens.
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