Ohio Bryology et Lichenology, Identifiction, Species, Knowledge Newsletter of the Ohio Moss and Lichen Association. Volume 5 No. 1. 2008. Don G. Flenniken and Ray Showman, Editors [email protected] , [email protected] ________________________________________________________________________ OMLA Website Up and Running! and adverse conditions set in. It is then that Thanks to the efforts of webmasters Brian the “growth” moves outward into the outskirts Gara and Bob Klips, we now have a website – in the form of shopping centers and industrial www.ohiomosslichen.org . The site details parks. And so it is with the lichen. As the activities of the Ohio Moss and Lichen organisms age the center becomes subject to Association and contains back issues of the death and decay, with new growth always OBELISK. The site also contains up to date moving at the periphery where there is less information on Ohio lichens and bryophytes competition and better resources. Sometimes, and many useful links. revitalization of the inner “city” is attempted, but seldom is it successful unless preceded by LEFTHAND CORNER some natural catastrophe. - Don Trevor Goward once wrote, “Lichens are Flenniken fungi that have discovered agriculture”. This has been quoted in a number of publications, New Lichen Reported for Ohio including THE LICHENS OF NORTH AMERICA, when reference is made to the relationship between fungi and algae in the living organism we call the lichen. Although agriculture (farming) is by no means a simple task, this definition seems to be an over- simplification of what really goes on within the lichen thallus. I wonder if it might not be more like a city than a farm. I do not profess to understand what goes on within the lichen any more than I do what all goes on within a city. However, Usnea substirilis Photo by Ray Showman in either, and both, considerable logistics must be required for food, water, distribution, Last April, OMLA members Dan Boone, Jim transportation, waste removal, reproduction, McCormac and Ray Showman visited the repair, protection, division of labor, disease Wayne National Forest (Lawrence County) in and pest control, manufacturing, and energy. search of a rare, spring-flowering plant. The plant was found, and in a serendipitous turn of We are all aware of what eventually happens events, the same site was rich in corticolous as the city ages and begins to deteriorate and fruticose lichens. This group is uncommon in decay in the inner city when businesses close Ohio and to find more than a couple species 1 together is unusual. The Lawrence County Lichens Recorded During the OMLA site yielded seven species including Usnea Summer Foray , Symmes Creek Site, Gallia substerilis , new for Ohio. Also found were County, June 21, 2008. N = new county Evernia mesomorpha, Ramalina americana, record. R. farinacea (state endangered), Usnea mutabilis, U. rubicunda and U. strigosa. – Anaptychia palmulata Ray Showman Canoparmelia crozalsiana C. texana – N 2008 OMLA Summer Foray Cladina subtenuis This year the Summer Foray was held on June Cladonia furcata 21, and was attended by ten OMLA members. C. squamosa The group traveled to the Symmes Creek Site C. uncialis in the Wayne National Forest, and was joined Collema subflaccidum by six members of the West Virginia Native Dermatocarpon luridum Plant Society. The last page contains a group Flavoparmelia baltimorensis photograph with the names of the participants. F. caperata Heterodermia speciosa This site, located in Gallia County, Greenfield Hypotrachyna livida Township, is particularly rich in lichens and H. showmanii mosses. It was visited in 2006 by the Imshaugia aleurites combined Crum-Tuckerman Workshop, which Lasallia papulosa recorded 132 lichens and 89 bryophytes. This Leptogium cyanescens is more than any other site visited by the Myelochroa aurulenta Workshop participants. The site is presently M. galbina under consideration by the Wayne National Parmelia sulcata Forest for designation as special site for the Parmelinopsis minarum preservation and study of these organisms. Parmotrema hypotropum P. stuppeum The Summer Foray concentrated on an area P. xanthinum not seen by the Crum-Tuckerman group. This Phaeophyscia pusilloides area contains wetlands, riparian forest, dry oak P. rubropulchra forest and massive sandstone outcrops. P. squarrosa Thirty-eight species of lichens were recorded, Physcia americana including one new county record, P. millegrana Canoparmelia texana . This species is also a P. subtilis state-listed rarity. Thirty-four species of Punctelia missouriensis mosses and five liverworts were recorded. Of P. rudecta these, 14 mosses and 2 liverworts were new P. subrudecta for Gallia County. Two additional mosses Pyxine sorediata were new for the Symmes Creek Site, but not P. subcinerea new for the county. – Ray Showman and Umbilicaria mammulata Diane Lucas Usnea amblyoclada Xanthoparmelia conspersa 2 Bryophytes Recorded During the OMLA Lophocolea heterophylla Summer Foray, Symmes Creek Site, Gallia Ptilidium pulcherrimum - N County, June 21, 2008. N = new county Scapania nemorea record. New Crustose Lichen Reported for Ohio Mosses Anomodon attenuatus Anomodon rostratus Atrichum tenellum - N Aulacomnium heterostichum Brachythecium oxycladon Brachythecium plumosum Bryoandersonia illecebra Bryum caespiticum - N Callicladium haldanianum - N Dicranum fulvum Dicranum scoparium Dicranum spurium Entodon seductrix Fissidens minutulus - N (was form of F. bryoides) Grimmia laevigata - N Haplocladium virginianum - N Acarospora obpallens Photo by Don Flenniken Hedwigia ciliata Hypnum curvifolium Acarospora obpallens is a small, easily Hypnum pallescens - N overlooked, squamulose lichen found on Isopterygiopsis muelleriana - N sandstone and granite. A common Leucobryum glaucum sourhwestern species, it is rare in the eastern Orthotrichum pumilum US, previously reported from Louisiana and Plagiomnium ciliare - N (previous record North Carolina. I discovered this species in historic only) the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia Plagiomnium cuspidatum - N during recent collecting there. This species is Plagiothecium denticulatum recognized by its small, rounded areoles Platygyrium repens (rarely reaching 1 mm in diameter), sunken Polytrichum ohioense apothecia, tiny pits around the rim of the Pseudotaxiphyllum distichaceum - N apothecia, and a KC+ thallus. Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans Rhynchostegium serrulatum - N (= While returning home from the 2006 OMLA Steerecleus serrulatus) Fall Foray, I stopped at a small roadside Sematophyllum demissum cemetery along State Route 550 in Thuidium delicatulum Washington County. I collected Acarospora Tortula obtusifolia - N (= Desmatodon obpallens from deteriorating sandstone at the obtusifolius) base of one of the old tombstones. The Trichostomum tenuirostre - N (= Oxystegus specimen was examined and identification tenuirostris) confirmed by Kerry Knudsen, University of California – Riverside. This represents the Liverworts first record for this species in Ohio. - Don Jamesoniella autumnalis - N Flenniken Lophocolea cuspidata 3 The 2008 OMLA Fall Foray Lecanora dispersa were found on rock. A total of 25 lichens were recorded with two of The Fall Foray was held on September 27’th these new for the county. and 28’th in Erie County. The Foray was attended by 20 people including several from In contrast, the bryophytes appear to have surrounding states. The first site visited was adapted to the new environment fairly well. A Edison Woods, one of the largest intact blocks total of 39 species were found with 4 new of forest in the Erie coast region of Ohio. The records for Erie county. – Don Flenniken, forest is mostly elm-ash-maple swamp forest, Diane Lucas and Ray Showman but there are also areas of upland hardwood forest, old field and wetlands. A total of 41 Bryophytes of the 2008 OMLS Fall Foray bryophytes were recorded including one new Edison Woods and Castalia Quarry. N = new county record. Twenty-one species of lichens for Erie County. were recorded from Edison Woods, including Moss Species EW CQ 12 new records for Erie county. Amblystegium serpens X A. serpens var. juratzkanum X The second site collected was Castalia Quarry. A. varium X Historically, Quarry #5, as it was known, Anomodon attenuatus X began operation in the early 1870’s. From that A. rostratus X X time until 1929 limestone was used as Lake Astomum muehlenbergianum X Erie shoreline walls and general building Atrichum angustatum X purposes. In addition, crushed limestone was Aulacomnium heterostichum X used in glass making and for railroad ballast. A. palustre X Brachythecium acuminatum X When the Great Depression struck in 1929 B. oxycladon X X quarrying activity at #5 ended. Twenty-five B. rutabulum X years would pass before it would reopen. B. salebrosum X X Bryhnia graminicolor X In 1954 construction began on the Ohio Turnpike and modern machinery was brought Bryoandersonia illecebra X X in to Quarry #5 to supply stone for the new Bryum caespiticum X highway. Up to 400 tons of stone per hour B. lisae var. cuspidatum X were mined and crushed until the turnpike was B. pseudotriquetrum X completed in the mid-1960’s. Callicladium haldanianum X Campylium chrysophyllum X Left undisturbed since then, this barren and C. hispidulum X scarred area is slowly returning to its natural C. stellatum X state. Native trees, shrubs and many of the Ceratodon purpureus X herbaceous plants would survive what must Climacium americanum X have been a thick accumulation of limestone Cyrto-hypnum