sabs_beano's Identifications

I thought it was a Collema at first glance, but it is not at all jelly like when wet. Thallus is greenish, very three dimensional, and appears squamulose and brainlike, but upon collection the squamules look more like wrinkled lobes at the end of branching, tree like growths more or less arising from a white central area. Collected in the Kananaskis area of Alberta from non-calcareous rocks at very high elevation.

Some parts of the sample have what look like misshapen black apothecia on top, but I haven't been able to sample any of them yet to confirm.

I thought it was a Collema at first glance, but it is not at all jelly like when wet. Thallus is greenish, very three dimensional, and appears squamulose and brainlike, but upon collection the squamules look more like wrinkled lobes at the end of branching, tree like growths more or less arising from a white central area. Collected in the Kananaskis area of Alberta from non-calcareous rocks at very high elevation.

Some parts of the sample have what look like misshapen black apothecia on top, but I haven't been able to sample any of them yet to confirm.

This is a previously undiscovered seep of this globally imperiled moss, which is heavily threatened due to climate change and is known from only 19 sites in Canada.

Sample confirmed by Dr. Caners, Royal Alberta Museum.

Location obscured to protect the population.

Growing on calcareous rock from a horizontal rock seam. This specimen has been sent to Dr. Einar Timdal, Curator Oslo Natural History Museum, an expert in the group who has confirmed it as P. himalayana.

This is a previously undiscovered seep of this globally imperiled moss, which is heavily threatened due to climate change and is known from only 19 sites in Canada.

Sample confirmed by Dr. Caners, Royal Alberta Museum.

Location obscured to protect the population.