Observation 361779: Aspicilia epiglypta (Norrl. ex Nyl.) Hue
When: 2019-03-13
Collection location: Karkaraly National Park, Karaganda District, Kazakhstan [Click for map]
49.39°N 75.3525°E 833m [Click for map]
No specimen available
Notes:
It is on granite cliffs in open places or semishadow of pine-tree forest.
This dark greenish-grey Aspicilia has curved up to vermiform areoles; apothecia are often complex with double ring or intergrowths of several small apothecia. Ratio of green and grey is very changeable. But this Aspicilia with the fine structure is the darkest colored here.
KOH test makes dirty yellowish-green then turned to dirty reddish-brown and chocolate brown colouring in several minutes.
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| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 5.54 | 1 | (Igor_Yevdokimov) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
0.85 | 28.24% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 5.54 | 1 | (Igor_Yevdokimov) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
0.85 | 28.24% | |||||||
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Some are really hard to guess!
By: Jason Hollinger (jason)
2019-03-23 21:15:54 CDT (-0400)
Beuatiful specimen, but what could it be???
The problem, that this lichen is extremely common, but not good for photos.
It has dark red-brown spots after KOH and very fine structure. It looks as scabrous dark grey and some greenish crust up to 10cm (old adult lichen). So, usually I took photos of it fragments as different observations 314027, 313617 and 313618 (long time with magnifying-glass made this decision).