BC, Wells Gray, 20080319
Edgewood Blue, two crust lichens.
Curtis brought these back from the "pucker" swamp.
Varicellaria rhodocarpa [] [voucher]
| GEN | crust lichen, on conifer twig |
| THAL | intensely verrucose, surface of verrucae rough, whitish |
| MED | white |
| ALG | green |
| APO | buried in verrucae |
| SPORE | 1 per ascus, 2 cell, thick walled, v finely roughened/textured, up to 180um long, walls to 12um (and apparently more) |
Pertusaria subambigens [] [voucher]
| GEN | crust lichhen, on conifer twig |
| THAL | smooth, thin, shiny, med gray |
| MED | white |
| ALG | green |
| APO | disks, pale pinkish turning pruinose white in age, thalline rim tattered and disintegrating in age |
| SPORE | 8 per ascus, small, ellip, 15x10um, 1um walls, smooth, textured stuff inside, 14-19x8.2-11um (Q=1.4-1.7) (N=5), walls 1.1-1.4um (N=3) |