University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, Lichens
Catalog #:
WIS-L-0119754
Secondary Catalog #:
L-83772
Taxon:Dermatocarpon reticulatum H. Magn. Family: Verrucariaceae
Determiner: Paula Lehr (1988)
Taxon Remarks:
(vagant form) D. vagans Imshaug
ID Remarks:
determiner assumed to be collector; date approximate
Collector:
Paula Lehr s.n.
Date: 1988-08-03
Locality:
United States, Colorado, Gunnison, Fossil Ridge, 10 miles north of Ohio City. Elk Mountains
Elevation:
3840 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
12,600 ft.
Habitat:
at contact of Tertiary granitic intrusives. Heaped in depressions up to 30 cm diameter, 10 cm deep; on tundra
Occurrence Remarks:
Presumably fragments of attached thalli may be carried up on thermals and deposited here where they flourish unattached in these protected