FL, Keys, 20071218
Port Bougainvillea, lichens and fungus.
Looked along canal to collect a few Dirinaria but failed to find any Pyxine today.
25.1746 +/- 0.0007N (25+10/60+22/92.22/60) 80.3650 +/- 0.0007W (80+20/60+80/84.22/60)
Tyromyces chioneus-group
See 20071209; shows nine-days' growth where I cut a piece off.
On last little "outcrop" into canal, going SW from tunnels.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on dogwood bark |
| | THAL | | lt gray, not spotted, lobes confluent w fan-shaped tips, closely appressed, flat to v subtly convex at edges, to 1mm wide, black and smooth bel (no rhiz), soredia in little semi-globose soralia scattered in center |
Dirinaria purpurascens [] [voucher]
On last little "outcrop" into canal, going SW from tunnels.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on dogwood bark |
| | THAL | | lt greenish gray, not spotted, lobes confluent w fan-shaped tops, flat to v subtly convex and wrinkled, closely appressed, to 1.5mm wide, black and smooth bel (no rhiz), no soredia |
| | APO | | abundant, 0.8mm wide, lecanorine, black w striking purple pruina, raised smooth whitened rim |
On last little "outcrop" into canal, going SW from tunnels.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on dogwood bark |
| | THAL | | lt gray, not spotted, lobes 0.5-1.0mm, closely appressed, imbr, convex, fanned tips, verrucose in center, white bel w tiny white rhiz |
| | APO | | up to 1mm wide, sl convex to sl concave, heavily white pruinose, rims smooth and even and v sl raised |
Ramalina montagnei
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