Collector:
James C. Lendemer; Richard C. Harris, participants of the 1st H. Crum Workshop 2410
Date: 2004-04-24
Locality:
United States, Pennsylvania, Monroe, on the lower north slopes of Hogback Ridge, Community Drive Wetlands, bisected by Hogback Ridge, ca. 1 mile southeast of Shoemakers, ca. 2 miles south of Bushkill, Delaware Watergap National Recreation Area.
41.078611 -75.006667
Verbatim Coordinates:
UTM: 18 499427E 4547474N; 41° 04' 43" N 75° 00' 24" W
Elevation:
213-244 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
700-800 ft.
Habitat:
drained portions boarded by Alnus, and swampy portions primarily with Acer and Fraxinus, [ridge] forested with dense hemlocks (Tsugo) and large semi-calcareous rock exposures and boulders; On a large rotting log
Associated Species:
Bacidina
Occurrence Remarks:
Thallus crustose, corticolous/lignicolous, green, thin and dispersed to continuous and ca. granular when well developed, esorediate; pycnidia brown to black, superficial, raised, epruinose; conidia, 2-celled, colorless, dumbbell-shaped, 5-5.25 x 2-2.5(im; apothecia reddish-brown to black, lecidine, convex and ca. hemispherical when mature, disc flat with smooth slightly raised margins that are excluded as the disc expands, with a ± white byssoid margin; epihymenium colorless to light brown; hymenium colorless (yellow/tan in thicker sections), 50-62|im tall; hypothecium reddish-brown, K-; exciple brown, usually at least partially blue-green, K-; asci (40)-48 x 10-12.5|im; ascospores colorless, 8-per ascus, 3-septate (4-celled), fusiform, 15.5 x 2-3.5|im