Apothecial section; Habitat: Riparian cottonwood forest, with Populus deltoides; Location: Missouri River crossing of U.S. Highway 191 at James Kipp State Park; Substrate: Bark, Populus deltoides; Elevation: 731 meters.
Lobes; Habitat: Artemisia tridentata steppe, with calcareous sandstone outcrops and silty soil; Location: Just north if I-80, 31 km W of Wamsutter; Substrate: Rock, calcareous sandstone; Elevation: 2104 meters.
Habit; Habitat: Artemisia tridentata steppe, with calcareous sandstone outcrops and silty soil; Location: Just north if I-80, 31 km W of Wamsutter; Substrate: Rock, calcareous sandstone; Elevation: 2104 meters.
Hymenium; Habitat: Old Pinus contorta - Vaccinium forest with many old pine beetle-killed trees and carpet of Cladonia and Peltigera, on gentle NW slope; Location: Above May Creek Campground, Beaverhead Mountains; Substrate: Humus; Elevation: 1950 meters.
Hymenium K; Habitat: Outcrops and talus of siliceous metal-rich argillite; Location: Steep slope above Clark Fork River, near Lolo National Forest boundary, downstream from St Regis; Substrate: Wood, old log on talus; Elevation: 840 meters; Notes: Spribille & Hafellner 2014 from photos:We don't know what it is but are fairly sure it is not Micarea/Leimonis erratica.
Thallus section POL; Habitat: Rocky ridge with Pinus flexilis and Juniperus scopulorum; Location: Just east of US Hwy 310, 9 km NW of Warren; Substrate: Rock; Elevation: 1370 meters; Notes: A. fuscescens det. Knudsen 2010.
Apothecial section; Habitat: Broken forest of Pseudotsuga and Pinus flexilis with limestone cliffs; Location: Cliffs above Warm Springs Creek, SW side of Warm Springs Mountain, 13.5 km W NW of Dubois; Substrate: Rock, limestone cliffs; Elevation: 2797 meters.
Apothecial section; Habitat: Openings in mixed conifer forest with scattered shrubs (Arctostaphylos spp.) and rhyolite outcrops and gravel; Location: East flank of Scott Mountain, NE of Roseburg; Substrate: Rock, volcanic cinder; Elevation: 1184 meters; Notes: Pl. 347: gyrophoric. ITS GenBank KY800508, nuLSU KY800516.
Habit; Habitat: Old Tsuga heterophylla forest on valley bottom; Location: Near James Pond, near Mora Ranger Station, W side of Olympic NP; Substrate: Bark, Tsuga trunk; Elevation: 13 meters; Notes: Plate 340: fumarprotocetraric acid.
Exciple section; Habitat: Argillite and quartzite rocks along river; Location: Along Thompson River at upper end of canyon; Substrate: Rock, HCl-; Elevation: 820 meters.
Asci; Habitat: Alpine tundra; Location: Saddle on ridge above Our Lake, 2 km N of Headquarters Creek Pass; Substrate: Rock; Elevation: 2345 meters; Notes: Parabagliettoa (Verrucaria) disjuncta det. O. Breuss 2012.
Asci KI; Habitat: Andropogon - Agropyron - Koeleria grassland with sparse Artemisia and calcareous sandstone outcrops; Location: Road to McGwire Creek Recreation Site, C. M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, near Montana Hwy 24; Substrate: Rock, calcareous sandstone outcrop; Elevation: 780 meters; Notes: A. stapfiana det. Knudsen 2008.
Soralia on apothecia; Habitat: Talus and outcrops of argillite, with scattered trees; Location: Slope above Clark Fork River; Substrate: Bark, small shaded Betula; Elevation: 805 meters.
Spores; Habitat: Alpine tundra; Location: Saddle on ridge above Our Lake, 2 km N of Headquarters Creek Pass; Substrate: Rock; Elevation: 2345 meters; Notes: Parabagliettoa (Verrucaria) disjuncta det. O. Breuss 2012.
Habit; Habitat: Alpine tundra; Location: Saddle on ridge above Our Lake, 2 km N of Headquarters Creek Pass; Substrate: Rock; Elevation: 2345 meters; Notes: Parabagliettoa (Verrucaria) disjuncta det. O. Breuss 2012.
Hymenium; Habitat: Steep, rocky, north slope with granitic rock, mature Pseudotsuga forest and continuous forest floor mosses; Location: Galena Gulch Recreation Area (BLM); Substrate: Rock, granite; Elevation: 1550 meters.
Habit; Habitat: Pinus flexilis savanna with limestone outcrops; Location: Hill on west side of Pine Butte Swamp; Substrate: Rock; Elevation: 1480 meters; Notes: Areolate form.
Apothecial section; Habitat: Treeless bench with resistant volcanic spires; Location: Devils Garden on northeast side of Mount Adams; Substrate: Rock, volcanic; Elevation: 2375 meters.
Habit; Habitat: Pseudotsuga - Larix forest; Location: Cascade Campground on Clark Fork River, 20 km mE of St Regis; Substrate: Bark, underside of Acer glabrum; Elevation: 790 meters.
Upper cortex; Habitat: Rocky Quercus garryana savanna, basalt breccia outcrops; Location: Southeast of Bald Hill Lake, 20 km SE of Yelm, Bald Hill; Substrate: Rock, exposed; Elevation: 275 meters; Notes: Plate 140 TLC: usnic acid, zeorin, leucotylin, unknown terpenoids.
Hymenium; Habitat: Alpine tundra; Location: Summit of knob just south of Boulder Pass, Glacier National Park; Substrate: Rock, argillite; Elevation: 2245 meters.
Habit; Habitat: Alpine tundra; Location: Summit of knob just south of Boulder Pass, Glacier National Park; Substrate: Rock, argillite; Elevation: 2245 meters.
Apothecial section; Habitat: Cliffs and talus; Location: Upstream of mouth of Thompson River on Clark Fork River; Substrate: Rock, argillite; Elevation: 748 meters.
Apothecia; Habitat: Treeless bench with resistant volcanic spires; Location: Devils Garden on northeast side of Mount Adams; Substrate: Rock, volcanic; Elevation: 2375 meters.
Paraphyses; Habitat: Treeless bench with resistant volcanic spires; Location: Devils Garden on northeast side of Mount Adams; Substrate: Rock, volcanic; Elevation: 2375 meters.
Areoles; Habitat: Treeless bench with resistant volcanic spires; Location: Devils Garden on northeast side of Mount Adams; Substrate: Rock, volcanic; Elevation: 2375 meters.
Ascus; Habitat: Treeless bench with resistant volcanic spires; Location: Devils Garden on northeast side of Mount Adams; Substrate: Rock, volcanic; Elevation: 2375 meters.
Exciple; Habitat: Rocky alpine tundra and sparse conifer krummholz, noncalcareous sedimentary rock; Location: Summit of Haystack Mountain, NE of Slate Peak, North Cascades; Substrate: Candelariella on rock; Elevation: 2226 meters.
Habit; Habitat: Riparian cottonwood forest, with Populus deltoides; Location: Missouri River crossing of U.S. Highway 191 at James Kipp State Park; Substrate: Bark, Populus deltoides; Elevation: 731 meters.
Spores; Habitat: Open Pinus ponderosa - Juniperus woodland; Location: Above rest area 12 km S of Glendo on I-25; Substrate: Bunchgrass stubble; Elevation: 1460 meters; Notes: Det. M. Westberg 2006.
Lower cortex with rhizophyphae; Habitat: Rocky Quercus garryana savanna, basalt breccia outcrops; Location: Southeast of Bald Hill Lake, 20 km SE of Yelm, Bald Hill; Substrate: Rock, exposed; Elevation: 275 meters; Notes: Plate 140 TLC: usnic acid, zeorin, leucotylin, unknown terpenoids.
Apothecial section POL; Habitat: Rocky Quercus garryana savanna, basalt breccia outcrops; Location: Southeast of Bald Hill Lake, 20 km SE of Yelm, Bald Hill; Substrate: Rock, exposed; Elevation: 275 meters; Notes: Plate 140 TLC: usnic acid, zeorin, leucotylin, unknown terpenoids.
Hymenium POL; Habitat: Open prairie; Location: Mima Mounds Preserve, 2.4 km W NW of Littlerock; Substrate: Corylus bark; Elevation: 69 meters; Notes: In plot 97.
Hymenium; Habitat: Open prairie; Location: Mima Mounds Preserve, 2.4 km W NW of Littlerock; Substrate: Corylus bark; Elevation: 69 meters; Notes: In plot 97.
Spores; Habitat: Open prairie; Location: Mima Mounds Preserve, 2.4 km W NW of Littlerock; Substrate: Corylus bark; Elevation: 69 meters; Notes: In plot 97.
Spores; Habitat: Calcareous sandstone outcrops and badlands in open grassland with scattered Juniperus; Location: Badlands south of Culbertson, near County Road 152, above and south of Missouri River; Substrate: Soil; Elevation: 620 meters.
Habit; Location: Junction of Suicide Pass Road with US Hwy 212, Camps Pass, Custer National Forest; Substrate: Rock, HCl- volcanic; Elevation: 1310 meters; Notes: A. elevata det. Knudsen 2008.
Habit; Location: Junction of Suicide Pass Road with US Hwy 212, Camps Pass, Custer National Forest; Substrate: Rock, HCl- volcanic; Elevation: 1310 meters; Notes: A. elevata det. Knudsen 2008.
Hymenium; Location: Northern Salish Mountains, near mouth of Beaver Creek on Fortine Creek; Substrate: Populus tremuloides bark; Elevation: 1052 meters; Notes: Det. R. Reese-Naesborg, 2011: "looks like L. dubitans even though some spores are nonseptate and not curved. The substrate, the highly spotted epihymenium, the size of the spores and the fact that some spores are highly curved indicates L. dubitans; Collected by: Toby Spribille.
Habit; Habitat: Picea streambottom; Location: Near road crossing over East Fork Rock Creek, Big Snowy Mountains, south of Lewistown; Substrate: Bark, Pseudotsuga trunk; Elevation: 1677 meters; Notes: J. subaurifera det Tonsberg 2007.
Habit; Habitat: Picea streambottom; Location: Near road crossing over East Fork Rock Creek, Big Snowy Mountains, south of Lewistown; Substrate: Bark, Pseudotsuga trunk; Elevation: 1677 meters; Notes: J. subaurifera det Tonsberg 2007.
Spores; Habitat: Rocky ridge with Pinus flexilis and Juniperus scopulorum; Location: Just east of US Hwy 310, 9 km NW of Warren; Substrate: Rock; Elevation: 1370 meters; Notes: A. fuscescens det. Knudsen 2010.
Habit; Habitat: Barrens on shaley gravel; Location: Summit of Blacktail Hills, Glacier National Park; Substrate: Rock, HCl+; Elevation: 1825 meters; Notes: A. glaucocarpa conf. 2010.
Habit; Habitat: Quercus rubra - Betula forest with Fraxinus swamps in potholes; Location: Ridge above Muir cabin on north end of Highland Lake, 13 km E of Marcell; Substrate: Bark; Elevation: 425 meters.
Habit; Habitat: Quercus rubra - Betula forest with Fraxinus swamps in potholes; Location: Ridge above Muir cabin on north end of Highland Lake, 13 km E of Marcell; Substrate: Bark; Elevation: 425 meters.
Thallus and apothecia C reaction; Habitat: Talus and outcrops of argillite, with scattered trees; Location: Slope above Clark Fork River; Substrate: Bark, small shaded Betula; Elevation: 805 meters.
Apothecial section; Habitat: Talus and outcrops of argillite, with scattered trees; Location: Slope above Clark Fork River; Substrate: Bark, small shaded Betula; Elevation: 805 meters.
Spore fragment; Habitat: Talus and outcrops of argillite, with scattered trees; Location: Slope above Clark Fork River; Substrate: Bark, small shaded Betula; Elevation: 805 meters.
Habit; Habitat: Talus and outcrops of argillite, with scattered trees; Location: Slope above Clark Fork River; Substrate: Bark, small shaded Betula; Elevation: 805 meters.
Apothecia; Habitat: Rock outcrops surrounded by broken forest of Tsuga mertensiana and Chamaecyparis nootkatensis; Location: Outcrops above saddle near Baby Bedwell Lake, Vancouver Island; Substrate: Bark, base of Tsuga; Elevation: 973 meters.
Apothecial section K; Habitat: Limestone cliffs and talus surrounded by Pseudotsuga forest; Location: Just upstream from constriction in valley and bridge over creek, Rock Creek, Big Snowy Mountains; Substrate: Soil and moss over HCl+ rock; Elevation: 1585 meters.
Apothecial section; Habitat: Limestone cliffs and talus surrounded by Pseudotsuga forest; Location: Just upstream from constriction in valley and bridge over creek, Rock Creek, Big Snowy Mountains; Substrate: Soil and moss over HCl+ rock; Elevation: 1585 meters.
Apothecial section; Habitat: Dry subalpine ridgetop; Location: Ridgetop between Snowbird Tram and Mt. Baldy, Wasatch Range just south of Salt Lake City; Substrate: Rock, quartzite; Elevation: 3280 meters.
Epithecium; Habitat: Dry subalpine ridgetop; Location: Ridgetop between Snowbird Tram and Mt. Baldy, Wasatch Range just south of Salt Lake City; Substrate: Rock, quartzite; Elevation: 3280 meters.
Spores; Habitat: Old Tsuga heterophylla forest on valley bottom; Location: Near James Pond, near Mora Ranger Station, W side of Olympic NP; Substrate: Bark, trunk of fallen Tsuga; Elevation: 13 meters; Notes: T. spribille 2017: probably M. glabrescens. Needs TLC.