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Drhoz
6 months ago
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#3342 - Siphula sp. - Water Lichens Probably Siphula coriacea, which is widespread in SW Australia. Growing in moss beds on Sullivan Rock.
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#3342 - Siphula sp. - Water Lichens
Probably Siphula coriacea, which is widespread in SW Australia. Growing in moss beds on Sullivan Rock.
https://drhoz.tumblr.com/post/800673074543509504/3342-siphula-sp-water-lichens
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Lobarina sp.
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Bruce McCune
6 months ago
Big changes for a small genus of tiny cyanolichens, Arctomia. Ekman, Svensson & Westberg 2025.
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Lobaria oregana photomorph, Lobarina aff. scrobiculata, and Lobaria aff. anomala.
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Toby Spribille
11 months ago
A fun collaboration led by Alan Fryday,
@ddiazescandon.bsky.social
, Tracy Thai and several colleagues from the Grootbos Nature Reserve in South Africa, with a bonus revisit of the class Lichinomycetes plus a novel, very strange ITS insertion
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The genus Caeruleum (Lichinomycetes, incertae sedis): A new species from South Africa and a preliminary revision of the genus in North America - Mycological Progress
We describe the new species Caeruleum terricola from Grootbos Private Nature Reserve in the Overstrand Municipality of Western Cape Province, South Africa. The new species occurs on consolidated soil ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-025-02054-7
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Good times at MSA
@uehlinglab.bsky.social
@fungaljess.bsky.social
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Dr. Lucky Tran
11 months ago
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Bruce McCune
about 1 year ago
A big revision for the Lecanora saligna group -- six new species in Lecanoropsis. This is a common group of crustose lichens in western North America and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Jesse Miller
about 1 year ago
I'm happy to share that
@wyowildbotany.bsky.social
and I have published a report on the status of federally listed and recently delisted plants in WA. We report on population trends and synthesize research on some of Washington's rarest plants.
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
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Anna Kornbluh
about 1 year ago
"What has made our universities the greatest in the world, however, is not just the quality of our undergraduate education, but our ability to fulfill one of the central quests of modern life: the production of new knowledge thru discoveries that change the world."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
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Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.
The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/universities-inventions-funding.html
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John Villella
about 1 year ago
Pannaria oregonensis is a rare species endemic to moist lowland habitats of northwest North America, seen here on Hooker’s willow in a costal dune complex on the central Oregon coast.
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Tom Astle
about 1 year ago
Orchid Bee, Colombia
#BlueMonday
Males (like this) collect volatile chemicals, from orchids and other sources, to create complex scents to impress females. They collect chemicals with their front legs, transfer them to the middle legs, then finally into storage pockets in the enlarged rear legs. 🐙🌿📷
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PeterBMeme
about 1 year ago
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John Villella
about 1 year ago
Gabura insignis is a unique hypercoastal cyanolichen in the Pacific Northwest distinguished by its wrinkled warty isidiate thallus that greatly expands when wet, seen here in a dry state growing on conifer twigs at the mouth of the Salmon River, Lincoln County Oregon.
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John Villella
about 1 year ago
Letharia columbiana is a common endemic wolf lichen in the inland Northwest. It is distinguished by the chartreuse colored thallus from vulpinic acid and the prominent brown apothecia, seen here near Cottonwood Meadow Lake in Fremont-Winema National Forest, Lake County, Oregon.
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John Villella
about 1 year ago
Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis is a specklebelly lichen restricted to ancient stands of old-growth and endemic to the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, seen here along the Ohanapecosh River, Lewis County, Washington.
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John Villella
about 1 year ago
Parmelina coleae is a epiphytic lichen characteristic of the Mediterranean type climate of the California Floristic Province, seen here growing on an ancient Garry oak at the northern edge of its range at Upper Table Rock in Jackson County, Oregon.
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John Villella
about 1 year ago
Ricasolia amplissima ssp. amplissima occurs only as a dendriscocauloid cyanomorph in southern Oregon, seen here growing on a horizontal branch of an ancient Garry oak in a lichen rich oak savannah near Antelope Creek in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain of Jackson County.
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John Villella
about 1 year ago
Cetrelia cetrarioides is an uncommon rag lichen living on red alder in low elevation riparian forests in the Pacific Northwest. Distinguished by pseudocyphellae on the upper & lower surfaces & elongate soralia along smooth thallus margins. Seen here along Mill Creek in downtown Turner, Oregon.
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John Villella
over 1 year ago
Nephroma tropicum is a commonly encountered kidney lichen in the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, distinguished among local Nephroma species by the abundant marginal lobules. Seen here along the Nisqually River in the Longmire Springs area of Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.
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Plantlife
over 1 year ago
We've returned one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home🏠 Scrambled Egg Lichen has been reintroduced to Norfolk from Cornwall via a trial translocation🍳 Thanks to Cornwall Wildlife Trust & Norfolk Wildlife Trust, with funding from Natural England Learn more 👉
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he Rare Lichen that Travelled from Cornwall to Norfolk
An incredible story of returning one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home – more than 350 miles away.
https://bit.ly/4hWieOP
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Peter R. Nelson
over 1 year ago
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Rob Yaxley
over 1 year ago
Excited to see how this goes. I helped the Plantlife team dig in the thalli…
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Peter R. Nelson
over 1 year ago
Spend your money as if it were your vote tomorrow Feb. 28 (and everyday in my mind). Our democracy and our economy (our ability to make enough to survive) depends on it.
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods
over 1 year ago
I often imagine crustose lichens as alien landscapes. A close up pic of a Porpidia species
#lichen
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#Newfoundland
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Arthur Gessler
over 1 year ago
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00550-0
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Northwest Lichenologists (NWL)
over 1 year ago
How about the specimen of Sphaerophorus! I am learning towards S. venerabilis, but you can set us straight. It's from Mary's Peak in the Coastal Range of Oregon.
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Lalita Calabria
over 1 year ago
Hypogymnia duplicata, old-growth yellow cedar swamp, Dingford Creek trail, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, WA.
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Timo Mendez
over 1 year ago
And I though Lycoperdon perlartum (Common puffball) was saprobic. This study shows it forms ECM relationships with populus and may improve their resistance to drought.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Lycoperdon perlatum from a coniferous forest forms an ectomycorrhizal relation with and increases drought resistance of Populus × canadensis ‘Zhongliao 1’ - Symbiosis
Plant–fungal symbiotic associations benefit initial plant adaptation to droughty terrestrial ecosystems. Although information on mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi in drought-resistant mechanisms in cro...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13199-025-01035-4
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Chris Cant
over 1 year ago
Pseudocyphellaria norvegica has an upper surface with distinctive slightly mauve punctiform soralia/soredia
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Peter R. Nelson
over 1 year ago
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Northwest Lichenologists (NWL)
over 1 year ago
So here is a recently observed specimen from Crater Lake National Park here in Oregon. Anyone want to put a name to it? I don't think this will be too hard. The Genus should be easy. And by the way, you gotta love your parks!
#lichens
#lichenologists
#NPS
#NationalParks
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Jonathan Riley
over 1 year ago
Blue Felt (Pectenia plumbea), Nova Scotia’s official lichen — found a couple yesterday on Red maples on swamp edges. Scallop shape tending towards circular, deep blue mat but frosty white at lobe tips, red apothecia with thin pale white margins. raised radial ridges on lobe surface.
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Northwest Lichenologists (NWL)
over 1 year ago
Support for student/enthusiasts! NWL is offering ~10, $150 awards to help student/non-student lichen folk with need presenting talk or poster. Must also be registered with NWSA for the meeting. Have abstract ready before applying-Deadline 2/17
northwest-lichenologists.wildapricot.org/event-5957694
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Danillo O. Alvarenga
over 1 year ago
Wow, they found fungal hyphae inside the sheaths of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria! Usually with these types of symbiosis it's the other way around, with bacteria growing inside their host. This is supercool!🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A thallus-forming N-fixing fungus-cyanobacterium symbiosis from subtropical forests
Fungus lives within cyanobacterial sheaths in a thallus-forming symbiosis, named “phyllosymbia.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt4093
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John Villella
over 1 year ago
Roccella tuberculata one of several litmus lichens found on the Macaronesian islands, seen here on volcanic rock at Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira, Portugal
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Science Friday
over 1 year ago
In the new series “Common Side Effects,” a scientist discovers a mushroom that can cure any ailment, but powerful people want to keep it a secret. Show creators Steve Hely and Joe Bennett join us to talk about the science that inspired this fungal drama.
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In ‘Common Side Effects,’ A Clash Over An All-Healing Mushroom
The show’s starring scientist finds a mushroom that can heal any ailment. But powerful people will do anything to stop him from cultivating it.
https://buff.ly/4gvzHfw
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Manuela Dal Forno
over 1 year ago
ABLS Field Research Awards are now open! Check out the details at
www.abls.org
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Take this class!
over 1 year ago
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The many beautiful forms and shapes of Hypogymnia imshaugii group.
over 1 year ago
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John Villella
over 1 year ago
Hypogymnia duplicata is a luxurious tube lichen endemic to cool moist coastal forests in northwestern North America, seen here growing on shore pine in a peat bog near Neck Lake, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.
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Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University
over 1 year ago
Paper alert! A
#lichen
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Toby Spribille
over 1 year ago
How does a 🍄 genome change in evolutionary transition to life on another 🍄 ? Congrats
@ccgallen.bsky.social
on first results on this strange Sporothrix we started studying during the pandemic. TLDR: +-1/3 of genome lost in switch to life in matrix of another fungus, but intriguing CAZymes gained
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John Villella
over 1 year ago
Usnea rubicunda is distinguished within the genus in the Pacific Northwest by its unique reddish orange color. Widespread in the tropics this species is uncommon further north, in Oregon it is confined to moist coastal forests. Seen here at Cape Lookout State Park in Tillamook County.
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Bruce McCune
over 1 year ago
eDNA and traditional biocrust sampling each have blind spots for biodiversity but tell a similar ecological story of disturbance in Artemisia steppe. The Bryologist, 128(1):1-15 (2025).
doi.org/10.1639/0007...
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Bengi Kendrick
over 1 year ago
Is there a way to know how many lines are in a chart without individually counting them? I wanna know how many species are recognized as being in my province. The answer is sort of indirectly there, but there's no clear answer out there that I can find.
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John Villella
over 1 year ago
Ramalina menziesii, is a species endemic to the west coast of North America. It is easily distinguished by its unique netted pattern, seen here luxuriantly growing as an epiphyte on an ancient Garry oak in the Willamette Valley in northern Oregon.
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John Villella
over 1 year ago
Solorina spongiosa with its distinctly spongy external cephalodia, seen here in a roadside depression within a forested limestone area in the Tongass National Forest on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
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Paul Foth
over 1 year ago
Happy Saturday from the Hypogymnia bros. Hypogymnia austerodes (or another from the recently split complext) with Hypogymnia physodes. And other Usnea, Bryoria, Physcia and Lecanora (I believe) lichens.
#HotStickSaturday
#fungifriends
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Bruce McCune
over 1 year ago
The latest from Kerry Knudsen et al. on Acarosporaceae from California. "We report 127 described species of Acarosporaceae for North America. We verified 62 species of Acarosporaceae from California." DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.112.138580
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