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Pixie Cup Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
alexgraeffDescription
have specimen
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Rough Speckled Shield Lichen (Punctelia rudecta)Observer
chdphotoDescription
Minooka Park
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Many-fruited Pelt Lichen (Peltigera polydactylon)Observer
metsaDescription
On mossy soil. Smooth, shiny green upper surface with orange apothcia. Brown lower surface with distinctive white 'craters' ('white spots' without veins in Brodo) and dark rhizines. No veins.
Lack of depressions on upper surface.
from Brodo (2016) key:
Peltigera
- not growing underwater / usually attached by many rhizines.
photobiont green or blue-green (?). cephlodia present or absent (?)
4 vs. 8
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Blue Jellyskin (Leptogium cyanescens)Observer
metsaDescription
On rock, same color underneath
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Pixie Cup Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
eknuthDescription
Squamulose lichen, green on top, white underside, forms rounded clump. On thin soil, amid moss, on granite. Shaded area. Shown with small oak leaves, mealy pixie cup, bedstraw for size comparison.
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Sunburst Lichens, Firedots, and Allies (Family Teloschistaceae)Observer
trusty125
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Common Lichens (Class Lecanoromycetes)Observer
bogwalkerDescription
Dark gray. Seems like some sort of dust.
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Pixie Cup Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
sthieschafer3Description
At Blanket Flower Prairie SNA
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Beard Lichens (Genus Usnea)Observer
mossman13Description
Growing on dead lower twig of Abies balsamea in open young spruce/fir forest. ID uncertain, but based on shrubby form with central holdfast, abundant papillae, and concave soralia on the branches. However, the apothecium seems very unusual.
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Beard Lichens (Genus Usnea)Observer
dawnhofstrandDescription
Found on the north side of the trunk of a white pine. This looks like usnea intermedia (fka usnea arizonica). But it has not been recorded near here before. What is it?
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Golden Moonglow Lichen (Dimelaena oreina)Observer
alexgraeffDescription
thallus greenish yellow, forming round, lobed rosettes
apothecia black, lecanorine
spores 2-celled, brown, with uniform walls
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tanner-lichens-shroomsDescription
Growing on rosette lichen on a black walnut tree. Stick found after rain storm
