amamalian's Identifications

Collector: Christian Jacks Johnson
Coll. #: F8.JAX.11.06.22 (iNaturalist)
Pic. #: F8-a,b,c,d,e
Date: 11-06-22
Time: 2:53 pm

Scientific Name: Psilocybe azurescen

Family: Hymenogastraceae

Location:

Weather: Mostly sunny, breezy

Habitat: Coastal pines mixing with dunes about 100 meters from the coastline (depending on tide).

Plant Association:

• Trees
• Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta)
• Vegetation
• Scotchbroom (Cytisus scoparius)
• Coastal Sedge (Carex exilis)

Substrate: Fruits attached to decaying coastal sedge (Carex exilis).

Spore Print: purple/brown

Morphology/Description: Specimens are a range of sizes and maturities. Growing scattered amidst the sedge. Small staure; fleshy.
- Height of entire specimens: 3.5-11 cm
- Stem length: 2-9.5 cm
- Width of cap: 0.5-7 cm
- Height of cap at center: 0.5-1.5 cm
- Width of stem: From 0.3 cm at apex to 0.8 cm at base
Stipe: Beige with white; with bluing where bruised; base has strong rhizomorphs; slight veil remnants with brown spore dusting. Gills: Close, unequal, attached, slight purple tint. Cap: Light caramel color; umbonate with nipple when young, becoming planar with age but retaining nipple, resembles flying saucer; margin with slight bluing. Odor: farinaceous. Taste: bitter/farinaceous. Spores: light brown and slightly wrinkly.

• found in mixed growth forest, off-trail
• Trees: Maple (Acer macrophyllum), Cedar (Thuja plicata), Alder (Alnus rubra)
• Vegetation: Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium), Holly (Ilex aquifolium), Sword fern (Polystichum munitum), Trailing blackberry (Rubus ursinus), Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), moss
• Notes: Thallus foliose dark bluish gray, light brown tomentum and white pseudocyphellae on underside. roundish white soralia scattered on topside
• photobiont: cyanobacteria
• substrate: dead branch with moss
• weather: wet but sunny

This lichen was on a coniferous twig alongside a heavily foot trafficked trail on the Twin Falls trail near North Bend, WA. The whole thallus was about 7.6 cm (3 in) in length and 3.04 cm (1.2 in) wide. The upper thallus was a light green color and the lower portion varied from cream-tan to dark brown/black. The surface of the lichen thallus was relatively smooth, but had some rougher portions.

Habitat: Mixed conifer forest; overstory dominant
Weather: 58F; Cloudy and sprinkling

Elevation: 830 ft AMSL
Substrate: Rock/Soil over rock.
Ecosystem: Riparian zone adjacent conifer dominant old growth and open deciduous dominant areas.
Associations: Hepatic spp, Bryophyte spp, Peltigera spp, Pilophorus acicularis, Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Description: Foliose thallus with single/broad lobes. Upper surface bright green. Lower surface white with distinct brown veins bearing cephalodia. Apothecia dark brown/black.
Notes: Indeed the cutest little peltigera!

Habitat: Mature mixed coniferous forest. Specimen growing on leaning trunk of Pseudotsuga menziesii. Weather: some clouds, some blue sky, 40 F, snowed the day before. Apothecia abundant on this specimen; no isidia or soredia observed