BC, Wells Gray, 20080301
WGWI west, crust lichens.
Curtis collected this from the sawhorse.
Absconditella lignicola []
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on weathered wood |
| | APO | | minute disks (0.05-0.15mm n=6), pale brownish to pinkish, smooth even raised rim slightly paler, not pruinose, all parts hyaline, well-developed exciple with sl brownish exciple and small rectangular cells, v thin unbr para, all K-, all parts I+ yellowish brown, no alg in margin |
| | SPORE | | 8 per ascus, hyal, 3-septate, constricted at septae, 11.1x5.7um (n=5), I- |
Used Curtis's trial keys. Curtis agrees.
Micarea
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on weathered wood |
| | THAL | | not seen, just a dk green algal slime |
| | APO | | v minute (to 0.1mm), pale yellowish, globose to almost flat, no rim, all parts hyaline, K-, C-, ascus tip I+blue with blue-line lighter tube penetrating to edge |
| | SPORE | | 8 per ascus, sl asym oblong, ~6x2um, not septate, hyal, smooth |
Curtis has never seen it, and it's not in the European key. If it were C+ gyrophoric (we tested just by looking for crystals in polarized light), Curtis would expect
M. prasina but that has larger apothecia.
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