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Overview
Synopsis:
| Appressed to suberect, puffy lobes, with laminal soredia, abundant budding and adventitious branching; medulla P+ orange red.
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Distribution:
| Endemic to Pacific coast of western North America. Alaska to Oregon, w Cas, with rare inland disjuncts in BC
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Habitat:
| temperate oceanic forests
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Range:
| Pacific Northwest Immediate Coast, Pacific Northwest
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Other Diagnostics: | Upper cortex often eroding to expose blackish medulla, similar to H. pseudophysodes. Soralia sometimes flaking schizidia at the edges.
| Substrate Notes: | On hardwoods and conifers
| Abundance in North America: | Locally common
| Substrate: | Typically
| Host: | Alnus, conifers (Abies, Pinus, Pseudotsuga, Tsuga)
| On Rock: | Never
| On Moss/Detritus/Sod: | Never
| Authority: | Goward
| References: | Bjork et al. (2009), Goward (1988)
| Synonymy: | None
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Habit
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Reproductive Structures
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Soredia
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