#anaptychia

[wild-e-eep]

A couple of jaunty sea-side lichens having a tussle. I think I've got Xanothoria aureola in yellow and Anaptychia runcinata in brown (it goes a lovely avocado green colour when well hydrated.)

[cedar-glade]

Lobey Mc Lobe Face. or Shaggy fringed Lichen Anaptychia palmulata

Often found at the base of Chestnut Oaks in well preserved forests with good air quality.

RRG, somewhere miles up a ridge line off of the second back cover on snow arch side of copperas creek. KY

[lichenaday]

Anaptychia crinalis

Fringed lichen, eyed centipede, hanging fringe lichen

A rare chap, for today's lichen: the gorgeous and only slightly unsettling A. crinalis! This fruticose lichen forms dense tufts made up of long, flat branches. The thallus surface is fuzzy and chalky in texture, and varies in color from gray-brown to brown to olive depending on age and hydration level. It has distinctive black cilia along the lobe edges, like weird lil eyelashes. It has flat, gray apothecia, with little spines coming off the underside. A. crinalis grows on rock and wood in mountain valleys in border area between costal and inland habitats. It is scattered in small numbers throughout the northern hemisphere.

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[blogbirdfeather]

Lichens - Líquenes

Trancoso/Portugal (23/11/2011)

[Nikon D80; AF 105mm Micro-Nikkor F2,8; Camera Flash]

[cedar-glade]

zoom out of the same specimen dry vs hydrated.

Base/buttress along ridge top at canby's trail at Fort Hill Earthworks SNP

Anaptychia palmulata, aka Lobymclobeface( lichens of the great smokey mountains book pg 63) or lobe lichen

the best key recognized characteristic of this species is the fact that lobules are produced along apothecial margins especially near the center of the thallus, it's non imbricate, instead the overlapping is real.

when hydrated it is one of the most vibrant green thallus we have in Ohio, the lower section is pale and corticate or rather corticate refering to a non differentiated abaxial surface.

[cedar-glade]

two dope ass macrolichens I got very excited about in a walnut tree last spring (55 dbh walnut 115 feet top to bottom which is the biggest black walnut i’ve ever climbed hidden in this valley in Mt. Airy forest in Cincinnati. )

I was excited because I don’t see these in Cincinnati though they are common in southern Ohio despite the fact. Really uncommon in city regions due to heat island issues low rainfall compared to past rain due to deforestation and climate change, and the classic air pollution problem. We got lucky, this walnut was in a valley and surrounded by forest, the tips were caked in one of these though the other was just pure luck to begin with. My first time seeing this species out of high quality habitat like Adams county Ohio or RRG region Kentucky.

Top is my favorite lichen, a somewhat variable species that appears on moss thats on dolomite, or moss thats on trees.

Shaggy-fringe Lichen, like even the apothecia are fringed!, when hydrated the thallus is an emerald green, its puffy sometimes and looks like a fringy tube lichen and sometimes the thallus looks thin like this picture, Anaptychia palmulata

Moondust Speckled Lichen with its dope apothecia large and in charge, Punctelia caseana

[lichenaday]

Anaptychia runcinata

I love a lichen with a unique color, and so a lichen that comes in two very distinct colors like A. runcinata is a special treat! This foliose lichen has long, linear lobes which form rounded rosettes up to 15 cm in width. The upper surface coloration is either a true green-olive green when moist, or a dark russet brown when dry. The lower surface varies from pale to dark in coloration, and has simple simple rhizines forming tufts. Apothecia are common, with a thick, crenulated margin, and a dark brown-black disc. A. runcinata is largely a coastal species, and typical grows on hard, ocean-sprayed rocks near the ocean. So far it has only been found in Europe. I say so far because lichens are really good at showing up all over the place, so there is a good chance it will be found in other coastal areas. We all just gotta get out there and look for lichens! 

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