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On serpentine, often making a rusty halo on the rock surface; thallus rimose-areolate, thin, endolithic; apothecia +/-submerged in thallus, w/o proper margin (photos 3 & 4); epihymenium blue-green; hymenium dense-gelatinous--preventing view of asci, squash mount didn't release any spores. Hypothecium dark. Photo 5 shoes an ascus to the right of the scale bar--looks more like oil bodies than spores inside of it.
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Fertile form; apothecia not obvious in second photo but they are present
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Уснея Длиннейшая (Usnea longissima)Observador
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I-5 South rest area
On Quercus garryana and Pseudotsuga menziesii
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Género CalochortusObservador
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Is this a hybrid of C. amabilis and C. tolmiei? Both were present along with this specimen.
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Usnea ceratinaObservador
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Central cord is pinkish (photo 2). This specimen has the largest apothecia I've seen for the species.
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Scytinium plicatileObservador
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On limestone rock (see last photo for habitat--growing on the gray colored outcrop.
Small, brown jelly lichen with white tufts of tomentum on lower surface (photo 4), isidia-like warts on upper surface, apothecia disks reddish-brown. Lobe tips rather thick and round. The thallus swells when wet: photo 2 dry, photo 3 wet.
Spores muriform, keys say 3 transverse septa and 1 longitudinal--I found more variation (see sketches in photo 6). Spore size matches keys.
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On bark of sargent cypress. Black, dense cushion-like mounds of minute chain-like strands.
Second collection made September 9, 2023. Found some reproductive structures (conidia?) [see photos 3-5]
Spores brown elliptical and slightly pointed at ends, brown, 3-septate, 154 x 51-62 microns.
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Lobaria anthraspisObservador
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Photo 1: upper surface
Photo 2: lower surface showing pseudocyphellae
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Habitat: Exposed point, growing on Picea sitchensis at edge of stand, adjacent to coastal bluff/grassland community.
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Northern-most occurrence on the west coast (?).
On Picea sitchensis, associated lichen species included Usnea rubicunda.
Habitat: Picea stand on exposed point jutting into Pacific Ocean.
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Photo #3 shows habitat, on volcanic rock columns along south face of a ravine-like ocean inlet. Quite abundant--look close in photo for subtle orange hue painting the rocks.
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Specimen on right: Collection # TELO 044.
Relatively far from coast to find the sterile form.
Specimen found on ground, blow-down, likely from mid-upper canopy of a large Douglas fir.
Fertile form shown on left--this type is more common at this location.
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Quite far inland for this species but it is right in line with the fog flow coming in through the Petaluma Gap.
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Quercus garryanaObservador
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Oregon oak acorns are fat and rounded with a small beret-like cap. Lobe tips of lvs generally slightly tapered to rounded point compared to the blocky-blunt lobe ends of Q. lobata
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Quercus × eplingiiObservador
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Hybrid between Q. douglasii and Q. garryana. Lvs a bit too lobey for Q. douglasii and not as deeply lobed as should be for Q. garryana.