CA, Southern California, 20080827
Los Angeles, lichens and fungi.
Deodar cedar in park at N end of Grand by freeway entrance / exit.
Lecanora hagenii [] [voucher]
Phaeophyscia insignis [] [voucher]
| GEN | minute foliose lichen, on cedar bark, in shaded spray zone with |
| THAL | green, minute flat lobes, epruinose, K-, lower surface whitish to tan, paraplectenchymatous both surfaces, pale short rhiz, fine green granular soredia in laminal soralia, soralia becoming confluent and covering entire thallus appearing almost leprose |
| APO | none |
Carob tree on Linda Vista and Yocum (NW corner).
Laetiporus gilbertsonii []
Coast live oak in La Crescenta Valley County Park.
Physciella chloantha [] [voucher]
| GEN | minute foliose lichen, on oak bark, in shaded spray zone |
| THAL | green, lobed, tips ascending and ruffled, epruinose, K-, whitish bel with lots of short white rhiz, fine granular soredia in terminal labriform soralia, paraplectenchymatous on one surface and prosoplectenchymatous on the other (long fine parallel hyphae) |
| APO | none |