I believe this is one of the populations which I read about being split while building highway 104
Was quite pleased to find a Spring Salamander at all, extra pleased to find one eating another salamander, and interested to find it so far from the stream. Maybe they were driven upland by the storm runoff.
On small White Pine branch. Distinctive small green thallus. Medulla fleeting KC+ purple. Polysporous asci, thousands of simple hyaline spores. Can't tell if hymenium is inspersed with oil because there were so many spores.
Adnate foliose lichen with a pruinose pale thallus growing on mossy, sandy soil on the steep side of a dry wash, collected a portion for UCD with permit. There are numerous marginal soralia and no apothecia were seen. K negative on several attempts. Lobes about 1-2 mm wide. The lower surface is pale with numerous dark rhizines.
It struck me as smaller, and strictly adnate as compared with Porella platyphylla.
On a north-facing vertical bedrock exposure above a woodland stream.
The leaves are half the size (0.5 mm) of Porella platyphylla (1.0 mm).
reference Porella platyphylla observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198221004
On a rock cascade of a seasonal stream. Even at this moist time of year, the water did not flower over this moss. Such an event must be infrequent at best, which surprises me very much, as I am accustomed to seeing Fontinalis in situations where it is submerged and must be so for much of the time, given the locations in which it has been found.
I have found 3 rosettes on three different trees, always large Tulip Poplars, and the rosette always on the west side of the trunk.
growing on soil with Peltigera. Several extensive colonies.
Abundant marginal lobules. Tomentose upper surface, at least on distal parts of lobes. Large rusty-colored upright apothecia. Underside with simple white rhizines and white veins.
Growing on base of red oak tree, along red trail.
Endemic to the Appalachians and one of the only aquatic lichens, this species is uncommon and is indicative of high water quality. It looks like it belongs in a tidal pool. A Pennsylvania 'Watchlist' species.
in shaded stream over rocks
3' by 4' patch of a brown leafy organism resembling an alga growing on rocks in seepage area along riverbank
Sparse apothecia on dorsal side. Tomentose veins on ventral side.
The cell photos are 100x and 500x.
Elghornslav
A species I had the honor of naming. Foliicolous on taraire and titoki (as illustrated by these photos).
Photos are of specimen while wet. On concrete, east facing side of multi story building, second story. Lower surface with patches of white tomentum, image 5. Attempted thallus cross section, image 7. Spores muriform. Last photo is of a thin slice of cortex, showing jigsaw puzzle piece shaped cells. Collection number LB1, GenBank: OQ929928.1
On rough section of Alnus rubra bark, edges of a burl
On sandstone
On moss in cracks of sandstone beneath redwood stand
on chert rock / rocky outcrop
On Ilex opaca bark; spores hyaline, muriform, 1/ascus, cells about 22 x 8, spores 76-80 x 27-29 microns
Photo credit and determination: M. Hodges
First known documentation of this species in Alabama and outside of the Florida peninsula.
Only growing on Chamaecyparis thyoides approx. 1-2 m above ground on the trunk. This specimen was documented on a windthrown tree in full sun.
On Ceanothus. Hollow interior with perforations.
Isidia and soredia lacking. The apothecia are almost always present in R. dilacerata. Found on A. macrophyllum branch.
"On Acer macrophyllum twig and trunk bark. Quiet narrow sheltered inlet at south arm of Phoenix Lake, with Acer macrophyllum present. "