Pulvinora pringlei #

Taxon #

Pulvinora pringlei

Organization #

Fruticose-Crustose Lichens

Identification #

An olive greenish to licorice black crustose lichen which becomes somewhat fruticose similar to Phylliscum demangeonii. That species is a matt black and the globular growths it forms are smaller. Pulvinora is usually a very shiny lichen and usually grows upside down from overhangs of large rock formations and boulders, especially hoodoos.

Substrate #

Rock

Notes #

We have collected it from as far north as the White Mountains.