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Soaked wet conditions. Eventually Gyalecta leucaspis? According to Wirth a very rare species for Germany. Pruegger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia' has this species listed. G. leucaspis has vividly pink to light orange thallus and its apothecia rim disintegrate into 5-10 radial sections when old (Wirth, 1995). This corresponds well to my pictures. However, I can not find thick gray-white pruina on apothecia which is also a typical character for G. leucapsis. On the other hand, in literature and on web I have never found mentioning vivid orange as a possible thallus color of G. jenensis. G. jenensis is quite common here and also a possibility. Observing spores would resolve the dilemma. Habitat: Road scarp rocks of a dirt road, humid shady place, mixed forest and grassland around, no insolation during winter months, often wet, north oriented, 1.5 mm off the road level, exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical calcareous rock surface. Ref.: http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ , Wirth, (1995), Die Flechten Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer, Vol.1., p410, Brodo, Sharnoff, Sharnoff (2001), Lichens of North Ameria, Yale Uni.Press, p329.

Soaked wet conditions. Eventually Gyalecta leucaspis? According to Wirth a very rare species for Germany. Pruegger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia' has this species listed. G. leucaspis has vividly pink to light orange thallus and its apothecia rim disintegrate into 5-10 radial sections when old (Wirth, 1995). This corresponds well to my pictures. However, I can not find thick gray-white pruina on apothecia which is also a typical character for G. leucapsis. On the other hand, in literature and on web I have never found mentioning vivid orange as a possible thallus color of G. jenensis. G. jenensis is quite common here and also a possibility. Observing spores would resolve the dilemma. Habitat: Road scarp rocks of a dirt road, humid shady place, mixed forest and grassland around, no insolation during winter months, often wet, north oriented, 1.5 mm off the road level, exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical calcareous rock surface. Ref.: http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ , Wirth, (1995), Die Flechten Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer, Vol.1., p410, Brodo, Sharnoff, Sharnoff (2001), Lichens of North Ameria, Yale Uni.Press, p329.

Soaked wet conditions. Eventually Gyalecta leucaspis? According to Wirth a very rare species for Germany. Pruegger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia' has this species listed. G. leucaspis has vividly pink to light orange thallus and its apothecia rim disintegrate into 5-10 radial sections when old (Wirth, 1995). This corresponds well to my pictures. However, I can not find thick gray-white pruina on apothecia which is also a typical character for G. leucapsis. On the other hand, in literature and on web I have never found mentioning vivid orange as a possible thallus color of G. jenensis. G. jenensis is quite common here and also a possibility. Observing spores would resolve the dilemma. Habitat: Road scarp rocks of a dirt road, humid shady place, mixed forest and grassland around, no insolation during winter months, often wet, north oriented, 1.5 mm off the road level, exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical calcareous rock surface. Ref.: http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ , Wirth, (1995), Die Flechten Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer, Vol.1., p410, Brodo, Sharnoff, Sharnoff (2001), Lichens of North Ameria, Yale Uni.Press, p329.

Half dry conditions. Eventually Gyalecta leucaspis? According to Wirth a very rare species for Germany. Pruegger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia' has this species listed. G. leucaspis has vividly pink to light orange thallus and its apothecia rim disintegrate into 5-10 radial sections when old (Wirth, 1995). This corresponds well to my pictures. However, I can not find thick gray-white pruina on apothecia which is also a typical character for G. leucapsis. On the other hand, in literature and on web I have never found mentioning vivid orange as a possible thallus color of G. jenensis. G. jenensis is quite common here and also a possibility. Observing spores would resolve the dilemma. Habitat: Road scarp rocks of a dirt road, humid shady place, mixed forest and grassland around, no insolation during winter months, often wet, north oriented, 1.5 mm off the road level, exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical calcareous rock surface. Ref.: http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ , Wirth, (1995), Die Flechten Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer, Vol.1., p410, Brodo, Sharnoff, Sharnoff (2001), Lichens of North Ameria, Yale Uni.Press, p329.

Half dry conditions. Eventually Gyalecta leucaspis? According to Wirth a very rare species for Germany. Pruegger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia' has this species listed. G. leucaspis has vividly pink to light orange thallus and its apothecia rim disintegrate into 5-10 radial sections when old (Wirth, 1995). This corresponds well to my pictures. However, I can not find thick gray-white pruina on apothecia which is also a typical character for G. leucapsis. On the other hand, in literature and on web I have never found mentioning vivid orange as a possible thallus color of G. jenensis. G. jenensis is quite common here and also a possibility. Observing spores would resolve the dilemma. Habitat: Road scarp rocks of a dirt road, humid shady place, mixed forest and grassland around, no insolation during winter months, often wet, north oriented, 1.5 mm off the road level, exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical calcareous rock surface. Ref.: http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ , Wirth, (1995), Die Flechten Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer, Vol.1., p410, Brodo, Sharnoff, Sharnoff (2001), Lichens of North Ameria, Yale Uni.Press, p329.

Half dry conditions. Eventually Gyalecta leucaspis? According to Wirth a very rare species for Germany. Pruegger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia' has this species listed. G. leucaspis has vividly pink to light orange thallus and its apothecia rim disintegrate into 5-10 radial sections when old (Wirth, 1995). This corresponds well to my pictures. However, I can not find thick gray-white pruina on apothecia which is also a typical character for G. leucapsis. On the other hand, in literature and on web I have never found mentioning vivid orange as a possible thallus color of G. jenensis. G. jenensis is quite common here and also a possibility. Observing spores would resolve the dilemma. Habitat: Road scarp rocks of a dirt road, humid shady place, mixed forest and grassland around, no insolation during winter months, often wet, north oriented, 1.5 mm off the road level, exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical calcareous rock surface. Ref.: http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ , Wirth, (1995), Die Flechten Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer, Vol.1., p410, Brodo, Sharnoff, Sharnoff (2001), Lichens of North Ameria, Yale Uni.Press, p329.

Half dry conditions. Eventually Gyalecta leucaspis? According to Wirth a very rare species for Germany. Pruegger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia' has this species listed. G. leucaspis has vividly pink to light orange thallus and its apothecia rim disintegrate into 5-10 radial sections when old (Wirth, 1995). This corresponds well to my pictures. However, I can not find thick gray-white pruina on apothecia which is also a typical character for G. leucapsis. On the other hand, in literature and on web I have never found mentioning vivid orange as a possible thallus color of G. jenensis. G. jenensis is quite common here and also a possibility. Observing spores would resolve the dilemma. Habitat: Road scarp rocks of a dirt road, humid shady place, mixed forest and grassland around, no insolation during winter months, often wet, north oriented, 1.5 mm off the road level, exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical calcareous rock surface. Ref.: http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ , Wirth, (1995), Die Flechten Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer, Vol.1., p410, Brodo, Sharnoff, Sharnoff (2001), Lichens of North Ameria, Yale Uni.Press, p329.

Half dry conditions. Eventually Gyalecta leucaspis? According to Wirth a very rare species for Germany. Pruegger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia' has this species listed. G. leucaspis has vividly pink to light orange thallus and its apothecia rim disintegrate into 5-10 radial sections when old (Wirth, 1995). This corresponds well to my pictures. However, I can not find thick gray-white pruina on apothecia which is also a typical character for G. leucapsis. On the other hand, in literature and on web I have never found mentioning vivid orange as a possible thallus color of G. jenensis. G. jenensis is quite common here and also a possibility. Observing spores would resolve the dilemma. Habitat: Road scarp rocks of a dirt road, humid shady place, mixed forest and grassland around, no insolation during winter months, often wet, north oriented, 1.5 mm off the road level, exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical calcareous rock surface. Ref.: http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ , Wirth, (1995), Die Flechten Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer, Vol.1., p410, Brodo, Sharnoff, Sharnoff (2001), Lichens of North Ameria, Yale Uni.Press, p329.

Habitat: Overgrown rocky base of scree slops, partly in shade, northwest oriented, humid air, fully exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: on mossy thin soil covered calcareous rocks Ch.: primary squamules and podetia K-, P- Description: Podetia 20 to 30 mm high, 0.8 to 1.8 mm in diameter, gradually thinner toward tips. Their surface uniformly and densely farinose or granular almost from the base to the tip (sorediate ?). At the base, up to 15-30% of their height, distinctly squamulous (sometimes up to the tip), at the base among squamules rarely areolate corticate. Most of the tips pointed with a brown red pyknidia., only rarely forming a small, often distorted, cup with 3 to 5 pyknidia, which have only slightly larger or the same diameter as podetia. Podetia grow from a cluster of larges primary squamules, not from a surface of a large squamule. Most of podetia +/- curved at tips, larger ones usually having one to three side branches (never dichotomously forked). Some podetia have a longitudinal crack in their surface.

Habitat: Overgrown rocky base of scree slops, partly in shade, northwest oriented, humid air, fully exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: on mossy thin soil covered calcareous rocks Ch.: primary squamules and podetia K-, P- Description: Podetia 20 to 30 mm high, 0.8 to 1.8 mm in diameter, gradually thinner toward tips. Their surface uniformly and densely farinose or granular almost from the base to the tip (sorediate ?). At the base, up to 15-30% of their height, distinctly squamulous (sometimes up to the tip), at the base among squamules rarely areolate corticate. Most of the tips pointed with a brown red pyknidia., only rarely forming a small, often distorted, cup with 3 to 5 pyknidia, which have only slightly larger or the same diameter as podetia. Podetia grow from a cluster of larges primary squamules, not from a surface of a large squamule. Most of podetia +/- curved at tips, larger ones usually having one to three side branches (never dichotomously forked). Some podetia have a longitudinal crack in their surface.

Habitat: Overgrown rocky base of scree slops, partly in shade, northwest oriented, humid air, fully exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: on mossy thin soil covered calcareous rocks Ch.: primary squamules and podetia K-, P- Description: Podetia 20 to 30 mm high, 0.8 to 1.8 mm in diameter, gradually thinner toward tips. Their surface uniformly and densely farinose or granular almost from the base to the tip (sorediate ?). At the base, up to 15-30% of their height, distinctly squamulous (sometimes up to the tip), at the base among squamules rarely areolate corticate. Most of the tips pointed with a brown red pyknidia., only rarely forming a small, often distorted, cup with 3 to 5 pyknidia, which have only slightly larger or the same diameter as podetia. Podetia grow from a cluster of larges primary squamules, not from a surface of a large squamule. Most of podetia +/- curved at tips, larger ones usually having one to three side branches (never dichotomously forked). Some podetia have a longitudinal crack in their surface.

Habitat: Overgrown rocky base of scree slops, partly in shade, northwest oriented, humid air, fully exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: on mossy thin soil covered calcareous rocks Ch.: primary squamules and podetia K-, P- Description: Podetia 20 to 30 mm high, 0.8 to 1.8 mm in diameter, gradually thinner toward tips. Their surface uniformly and densely farinose or granular almost from the base to the tip (sorediate ?). At the base, up to 15-30% of their height, distinctly squamulous (sometimes up to the tip), at the base among squamules rarely areolate corticate. Most of the tips pointed with a brown red pyknidia., only rarely forming a small, often distorted, cup with 3 to 5 pyknidia, which have only slightly larger or the same diameter as podetia. Podetia grow from a cluster of larges primary squamules, not from a surface of a large squamule. Most of podetia +/- curved at tips, larger ones usually having one to three side branches (never dichotomously forked). Some podetia have a longitudinal crack in their surface.

Habitat: Overgrown rocky base of scree slops, partly in shade, northwest oriented, humid air, fully exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: on mossy thin soil covered calcareous rocks Ch.: primary squamules and podetia K-, P- Description: Podetia 20 to 30 mm high, 0.8 to 1.8 mm in diameter, gradually thinner toward tips. Their surface uniformly and densely farinose or granular almost from the base to the tip (sorediate ?). At the base, up to 15-30% of their height, distinctly squamulous (sometimes up to the tip), at the base among squamules rarely areolate corticate. Most of the tips pointed with a brown red pyknidia., only rarely forming a small, often distorted, cup with 3 to 5 pyknidia, which have only slightly larger or the same diameter as podetia. Podetia grow from a cluster of larges primary squamules, not from a surface of a large squamule. Most of podetia +/- curved at tips, larger ones usually having one to three side branches (never dichotomously forked). Some podetia have a longitudinal crack in their surface.

Habitat: Overgrown rocky base of scree slops, partly in shade, northwest oriented, humid air, fully exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: on mossy thin soil covered calcareous rocks Ch.: primary squamules and podetia K-, P- Description: Podetia 20 to 30 mm high, 0.8 to 1.8 mm in diameter, gradually thinner toward tips. Their surface uniformly and densely farinose or granular almost from the base to the tip (sorediate ?). At the base, up to 15-30% of their height, distinctly squamulous (sometimes up to the tip), at the base among squamules rarely areolate corticate. Most of the tips pointed with a brown red pyknidia., only rarely forming a small, often distorted, cup with 3 to 5 pyknidia, which have only slightly larger or the same diameter as podetia. Podetia grow from a cluster of larges primary squamules, not from a surface of a large squamule. Most of podetia +/- curved at tips, larger ones usually having one to three side branches (never dichotomously forked). Some podetia have a longitudinal crack in their surface.

Habitat: Overgrown rocky base of scree slops, partly in shade, northwest oriented, humid air, fully exposed to precipitations, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: on mossy thin soil covered calcareous rocks Ch.: primary squamules and podetia K-, P- Description: Podetia 20 to 30 mm high, 0.8 to 1.8 mm in diameter, gradually thinner toward tips. Their surface uniformly and densely farinose or granular almost from the base to the tip (sorediate ?). At the base, up to 15-30% of their height, distinctly squamulous (sometimes up to the tip), at the base among squamules rarely areolate corticate. Most of the tips pointed with a brown red pyknidia., only rarely forming a small, often distorted, cup with 3 to 5 pyknidia, which have only slightly larger or the same diameter as podetia. Podetia grow from a cluster of larges primary squamules, not from a surface of a large squamule. Most of podetia +/- curved at tips, larger ones usually having one to three side branches (never dichotomously forked). Some podetia have a longitudinal crack in their surface.

Slo.: elatinka - Habitat: Mixed, predominantly hardwood woodland, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), rain protected by trees canopies, in shade, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Fallen and much rotten log of a deciduous tree, probably Fagus sylvatica. - Ref.: M.Bon, Pareys Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 332. D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), pp 877. http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5574~source~gallerychooserresult.asp . http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/jelly%20fungi/species%20pages/Ascocoryne%20sarcoides.htm .

Slo.: elatinka - Habitat: Mixed, predominantly hardwood woodland, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), rain protected by trees canopies, in shade, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Fallen and much rotten log of a deciduous tree, probably Fagus sylvatica. - Ref.: M.Bon, Pareys Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 332. D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), pp 877. http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5574~source~gallerychooserresult.asp . http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/jelly%20fungi/species%20pages/Ascocoryne%20sarcoides.htm .

Slo.: elatinka - Habitat: Mixed, predominantly hardwood woodland, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), rain protected by trees canopies, in shade, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Fallen and much rotten log of a deciduous tree, probably Fagus sylvatica. - Ref.: M.Bon, Pareys Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 332. D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), pp 877. http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5574~source~gallerychooserresult.asp . http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/jelly%20fungi/species%20pages/Ascocoryne%20sarcoides.htm .

Slo.: elatinka - Habitat: Mixed, predominantly hardwood woodland, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), rain protected by trees canopies, in shade, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Fallen and much rotten log of a deciduous tree, probably Fagus sylvatica. - Ref.: M.Bon, Pareys Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 332. D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), pp 877. http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5574~source~gallerychooserresult.asp . http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/jelly%20fungi/species%20pages/Ascocoryne%20sarcoides.htm .

Slo.: elatinka - Habitat: Mixed, predominantly hardwood woodland, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), rain protected by trees canopies, in shade, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Fallen and much rotten log of a deciduous tree, probably Fagus sylvatica. - Ref.: M.Bon, Pareys Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 332. D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), pp 877. http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5574~source~gallerychooserresult.asp . http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/jelly%20fungi/species%20pages/Ascocoryne%20sarcoides.htm .