Collected by Richard Harris, Housed at UCR, California.
Collected by Kerry Knudsen, housed at UCR. photos show dry and hydrated
on tree
Endolithic crust growing on HCL-negative rock, collected a portion with permit for UCD. Lecideine apothecia are 0.5-1.0 mm in diameter with upturned gray edges, chemical tests on apothecia sections in water are all negative (K, C and P), hymenium is hyaline and about 80 microns in thickness, no polarizable crystals were seen. Hypothecium brown. Spores are narrowly ellipsoid, simple, hyaline, 8/ascus and about 10 microns in length and 2.5-4.0 microns in width. Iodine does not appear to stain exciple.
Sorediate Physcia-like foliose lichen growing in abundance on juniper branches, collected a portion with permit for UCD. Thallus bluish-gray, pruinose, with occasional apothecia. Thallus K negative by spot test, lower surface appears pale, at least near periphery and has a mixture of rhizines - some appear dark, brown and simple and others look pale and squarrose (?).
Very cool yellow-green crust with tiny flat black mazedia growing on dead juniper, collected a portion with permit for UCD - similar to photos of "Cyphelium" in Sharnoff's book. Abundant spores are brown, two-celled, smooth and measured from 13-18 x 10-11 microns.
Lichen growing on rock jetty close to path
Checking out Horseshoe Bay. Came specifically to dock foul for the first time but also to see what was around the rocks and in the general area.
My general observations from Horseshoe Bay:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=37.837174671353196&nelng=-122.44929503408186¬_in_project=dock-fouling-in-california&on=2024-07-09&order=asc&swlat=37.82785358970445&swlng=-122.49465655294172&user_id=joemdo
My dock fouling observations from the one small public dock:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-07-09&order=asc&project_id=2675&user_id=joemdo
My observations from Marin Headlands later:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=37.85513634622161&nelng=-122.48313099141484&on=2024-07-09&order=asc&swlat=37.81785403291719&swlng=-122.55711704488164&user_id=joemdo
Alum Rock Park
All of my observations from this visit: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=37.43713532958791&nelng=-121.71519707051729&on=2024-06-17&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=37.36213130501239&swlng=-121.89475487081026&user_id=joemdo
Alum Rock Park
All of my observations from this visit: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=37.43713532958791&nelng=-121.71519707051729&on=2024-06-17&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=37.36213130501239&swlng=-121.89475487081026&user_id=joemdo
A bit of leprose-looking thallus with mildly UV+ apothecia? On oak.