Ostropales

Mushroom Observer Image 729063: Diploschistes muscorum (Scop.) R. Sant.

Mushroom Observer Image 309963: Phlyctis argena (Sprengel) Flotow

Mushroom Observer Image 857636: Diploschistes muscorum (Scop.) R. Sant.

Mushroom Observer Image 857643: Diploschistes muscorum (Scop.) R. Sant.

Mushroom Observer Image 202264: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 202265: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 202266: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 217274: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 217275: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 242120: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 242121: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 242122: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 242129: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 242130: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 326533: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Mushroom Observer Image 501224: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Slo.: ? - Habitat: Mixed wood, near a stream, humid and shaded place, protected from direct rain by tree canopies, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 630 m (2.100 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: Bark of a fallen trunk of Fagus sylvatica

Mushroom Observer Image 501225: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Slo.: - ? - Habitat: Stony wall of a bridge across a water stream, 2 m (6 feet) above water level, N faced, humid and shady place, precipitations 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, altitude 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: vertical and over hanged calcareous rock

Mushroom Observer Image 526633: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

Slo.: ? - Habitat: Wood-side, mixed forest/cultivated grassland, vertical side of the boulder SE exposed, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, partly shady, fully exposed to rain, average temperatures 8- 10 deg C, altitude 480 m (1.600 feet) alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: bare limestone boulder

Mushroom Observer Image 546292: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman

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.

Mushroom Observer Image 561679: Diploschistes scruposus (Schreber) Norman