BC, Wells Gray, 20080127
WGWI east, lichens and fungi. 

Hypocenomyce scalaris (on old weathered pine? stump; didn't check chemistry  is it H. leucococca?) [voucher] 

Hypogymnia occidentalis (on birch bark) [voucher] 

Hypogymnia tubulosa (on birch bark) [voucher] 

Melanelia (on hardwood shrub by stream) 

Two rosettes side-by-side. 

Parmeliopsis ambigua (on birch by stream) [voucher] 

Two rosettes side-by-side. 

Parmeliopsis hyperopta (on birch by stream) [voucher] 

Peltigera aphthosa (on mossy overhang by stream) [voucher] 

Physcia alnophila (on birch bark) [voucher] 

Usnea substerilis (on birch bark) [] [voucher] 

Vulpicida pinastri (on birch bark) 

Spores, at 1000x. Spores, at 1000x. Spores, at 1000x. Old and young stalk, at 30x. Two old stalks, at 30x. Several stalks, at 30x. Several stalks, at 10x. 

Calicium trabinellum [] [voucher] 

 GEN on old weathered conifer stump
 THAL immersed
 APO maezadium, black, v thin tall black stalk, black cup with yellow-green pruina
 SPORE septate, black/gray, ellip, bumpy, thick walled, v constricted, 7.5-12.5x4.0-6.0um

Conidia, at 1000x. Conidial mass, at 1000x. Conidia, at 1000x. Close-up of phalides, at 1000x. Wart section, at 100x. Wart sliced open, at 30x. Wart, at 30x. Wart, at 30x. Several erumpent warts, at 10x. 

Nectria cinnabarina [] 

 GEN tiny warty fungus, on dead birch twig
 THAL little erumpent warts breaking through the bark, 0.5-1mm wide, coral pink, half of diameter is mass of conidia in some gelatinous matrix, inner half is hyphae, all same color but with dark pink dividing line where the blocky inner hyphae turn into slender occ branching hyphae that bear the conidia (2-3um wide and septate but don't know how to measure length)
 SPORE 
conidia hyaline, ~7x3mm, oblong, textureless, 6.5-8.5x2.5-3.5um
See: www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca

Pore texture. Nice cap covered with snow, quarter/side/bottom view. Two caps covered with snow, front view. 

Fomes fomentarius [] [voucher] 

 GEN on Betula papyrifera snag
See: www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca

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