Plants of the Gila Wilderness
Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department
of Natural Sciences
Phaeophyscia cernohorskyi (Nadv.) Essl.
Hairy Shadow Lichen
Phaeophyscia cernohorskyi is a grayish foliose lichen growing on the base of an oak trunk. The thalli have colorless, transparent cilia growing from the margins. There are copious soralia with blackish sorelia along the margins of the thalli. There are inconspicuous apothecia which also have colorless cilia along the cup. There are numerous maculae, whitish areas that are breaks in the cortex visible.
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Phaeophyscia cernohorskyi, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, March 14, 2018
Phaeophyscia cernohorskyi, photomicrograph of habit with maculae, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, March 14, 2018
Phaeophyscia cernohorskyi, photomicrograph of thalli, cilia and soralia, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, March 14, 2018
Phaeophyscia cernohorskyi, photomicrograph of apothecium, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, March 14, 2018
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