BC, Wells Gray, 20080328
WGWI east, fungi and lichens.

Along lower trail that turns north after the bridge.

Phellinus igniarius [] [voucher]

Piptoporus betulinus [] [voucher]

GEN several scattered on small standing birch snag
CAP 80+mm wide, kidney, convex, smooth, faintly cracked thin skin, dull-shiny, tan to brownish, margin blunt and projecting downward making a beautiful little "bumper" around the fertile surface
FLESH to 10mm thick, white, smooth, soft
PORE 4 per mm, brownish like surface, tube white ~4mm long, abundant teeth up to 2-3mm long in addition to tubes(!)

Dendriscocaulon []

(Curtis found this extreme rarity about to fall off of a small dead conifer twig.)

Peltigera neckeri []

GEN on small dry mossy log
THAL brown, shiny, smooth, no pruina, pale brown low veins bel with lots of small white interstices, brown highly-tufted rhizines
APO round, flat, brown, sl tattered marg

Peltigera canina-group [] [voucher]

GEN on mossy bank by creek
THAL lt gray, v d tomentose all over, lobes broad and sharply downturned at tips, smooth, creamy w narrow raised naked pale to brown veins bel
APO dk brown, as long as wide, strongly saddle-shaped

Peltigera leucophlebia-group [] [voucher]

GEN on mossy rock by road
THAL vivid green, dotted with dk cephalodia, lobes crisped and up-turned, white bel w v fainy veins darkening brown toward center
APO raised on erect fingers, longer than wide, reddish-brown, v curled into saddles or almost tubes, patchy green cortex on back

Stereocaulon tomentosum [] [voucher]

GEN on moss on rock by roadl THAL well-branched, extremely d tom all over stems, foliage minute v finely divided and attached on the side, cephalodia pale brown and somewhat tomentose
APO abundant, brown disks aging into dk brown lumps, rims disappearing, not pruinose, ~0.5mm, on branch tips only
Must be either S. paschale or S. tomentosum.