First observation of this species in Washington State. 50 plants or clumps of plants observed in vertical crevices of basalt cliffs.
(More photos, measurements, and notes will be uploaded at a later time.)
First observation of this species in Washington State. 50 plants or clumps of plants observed in vertical crevices of basalt cliffs.
(More photos, measurements, and notes will be uploaded at a later time.)
Low intertidal, on rock.
Tetrasporophyte phase, tetrasporangia present.
Identified to C. gardneri because there are ecorticate (lacking cortication) region between nodes, branch apices are forcipate (crab-claw-like) and tetrasporangia appear to be in whorls around the main axis.
Taxonomic note: Used to be in the genus Ceramium (Ceramium gardneri), but was recently moved to the genus Campylaephora.
K+Y
My best guess is Cladonia cariosa.
Link to the Picipes polypore observation here👇🏽
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159327546
On shoreline alder.
Medulla/axis K+Y.
Axis thin but also kind of rose/pink.
Main cord papillose. Side branches not constricted basally or cigar-shaped.
Isidiate with some clumps of isidia and fibrils too.
Length about 10cm, tufted.
Subtidal, collected by SCUBA. Cystocarpic. Can only reliably distinguish from P. cryptica by DNA.
Fallen branches of Picea sitchensis along shoreline
I thnk this is the only possibility for a yellow green, pale stalked calicioid on rock, unless @ahuereca has another suggestion. cc @bradenjudson
Spotted by @cwardrop on conglomerate
On P. juniperinum capsules and neck and seta
Attempt at drawing a photograph-based liverwort life cycle. Missing spore germination into protonema and development of gametophyte. Cluttered. Spore images (from different species) taken from Wikipedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porella_platyphylla_%28d,_144628-474752%29_8662.JPG by Hermann Schachner). On alder.
Young female Western Gray Squirrel raiding one of our backyard bird feeding locations. Actually, that is OK by us as there are way more introduced Fox Squirrels than native Gray Squirrels in our backyard these days.
Sori with sporangiasters.
Gametophytes, previously reported from this stump. Far smaller than I realized!
Step 1: Consult the iNat app from Port Alberni to confirm the location in a last-second plan before driving to Kennedy Lake.
Step 2: Walk the access road, find a small trail in the right area, and walk until my location dot on the iNat map matches the middle of the cluster of sightings.
Step 3: Spend at least 10 minutes searching the nearby forest for a stump matching the ones in the photos.
Step 4: After finding the right stump, spend another solid 10 minutes in miniature world searching the stump for the ferns, including going back to the photos several times for every clue I could find!
I thought I was looking for something larger, but the biggest ones were only about 2mm in size. Even more fun than Botrychium searches ;-) And I must say, I only saw them through the iPhone lens/screen, as they were too small to really see unassisted.
Now that I've seen them once (with all this tech help), hopefully I can find more!
Gametophytes (no sporophytes seen), uncommon within deeply shaded vertical crevices, conifer stumps (Picea sitchensis, Thuja plicata), 1 m above ground, W aspects, few associated bryophytes or lichens. Scale bar 1 mm.
No idea what is going on here. On rock
Note red cortex. Surprisingly inland on Picea.
Drama. These guys all normally get along pretty well, but here a squirrel decided to start something. Moments later they were back to munching sunflower seeds side-by-side again.
Take the Moonwort Madness Challenge!
See how many Western Goblins (Botrychium montanum) you can find in the second photo.
Hints: Zoom in all the way and look for the globular sporangia hiding in the Leptarrhena. (You will need more than the fingers of two hands to count them all.) The location of each plant is identified in the third photo.
Moonworts (genus Botrychium) are tiny ferns that are easily overlooked. If you are lucky enough to find one...keep looking! Dozens of plants can often be found growing in a small area. They also frequently grow in genus colonies containing multiple Botrychium species. But be warned, once you start finding them it's easy to succumb to Moonwort Madness. Victims of this addictive habit are easily identified as they wander stooped-over through mountain meadows seeking their prey.
Sticta gretae sp. nov. Goward & Di Meglio 2023
Di Meglio, J. R., & Goward, T. (2023). Resolving the Sticta fuliginosa Morphodeme (Lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigeraceae) in Northwestern North America. The Bryologist, 126(1), 90-110.
On fallen branch
Fair-sized patch over a shaded rock wall beside the water. No soredia or isidia, sunken white cyphellae, no rhizines, no veins below, strongly rotting-shrimp scented.
I was absolutely ecstatic to have even seen a pacific jumping mouse but was even more shocked when it allowed me to take photos on my phone up close for a few minutes as it fed. This individual still had awareness but didn’t seem super bothered by my presence. I’ve been wanting to observe this species for a while and I’m so happy to have gotten this experience.
Edit: Saw a different individual in the same spot today (9/27/23, 1:20 PM). Glad to see population activity.
This is Stereocaulon sp. S39567 mentioned in the Glacier Bay paper, a new species. Would be cool to find more!
these correspond to locality 394 for "Sticta sp. S27283" in Spribille et al. 2010: https://bioone.org/journals/The-Bryologist/volume-113/issue-3/0007-2745-113.3.439/Lichens-and-lichenicolous-fungi-of-the-Klondike-Gold-Rush-National/10.1639/0007-2745-113.3.439.short
On concrete sidewalk edge , very tightly appressed to surface , almost crustose
Fallen from trees above (most likely coniferous).
The classic “Oregana Falls” locality discovered by Trevor Goward and Helen Knight in 1992. Hundreds of thalli.
growing on a western sword fern
this obs is for the Usnea growing out of the Cladonia
This forest is known for hosting (or having hosted) several rare lichens such as Nephroma tropicum, Ricasolia amplissima, Chaenotheca subroscida... (see https://italic.units.it/index.php?procedure=tsb).
Unfortunately, after the Vaia storm and the consequent Ips typographus outbreak, almost all the trees that were in the area of the previously cited records (and in the area of the largest known national population of U. longissima) have been cut down: last picture for reference, Street View image from 2011 and Oct 2022.
Cyanomorph of Ricasolia amplissima (Dendriscocaulon sp.).
Cyanomorph of Ricasolia amplissima spp. amplissima "Dendriscocaulon intricatulum"
I think. A bit surprising if correct. @eullstrom. Chilliwack River Provincial Park, BC, Canada
On Scapania. Large. Peritheciate?
"Lobaria oregana" Lobaria silvae-veteris compound thallus with a primary cyanmorph and budding chloromorphs.
This is the third apotheciate Usnea I’ve found in Alaska
GenBank: MH374891
Simon, A., Goward, T., Di Meglio, J., Dillman, K., Spribille, T., & Goffinet, B. (2018). Sticta torii sp. nov., a remarkable lichen of high conservation priority from northwestern North America. Graphis Scripta, 30(6).
On fallen branch in mixed coastal forest. Marginal apothecia and pycnidia abundantly present helping distinguish it from P.norvegica. LNA says that dark coloration can occur between ridges if epiphytic algae is present. Chem test to follow.
@luca_hickey @lalitacalabria