Specimen #1 Common greenshield

Figure 1-Sample of Flavoparmelia Caperata

Figure 2- Coffee-black underside of Flavoparmelia Caperata

Figure 3-Sample of Flavoparmelia Caperata

Figure 4- Flavoparmelia Caperata on living tree

Name: Flavoparmelia Caperata Common Greenshield

Family:  Parmeliaceae

Collection Date: 09/13/2011

Habitat: Found on bark of a living tree right before entering the forest of the Chagrin Reservation. 

Location: Chagrin Reservation, Chagrin, Ohio

Description: Large size, lobes broad, rounded, dissected, margins wavy color of cortex is yellow-green, undersurface is coffee-black; rhizines simple, numerous, dark. No pseudocyphellae, older parts of lobes often wrinkled. Apothecia rare, saucer shaped.

Collector:  Vanessa Consolo

Keying Information:

Key used: Ray E. Showman and Don G. Flenniken 2004 The Macrolichens of Ohio Ohio Biological Survey Columbus, OH 

Pages 18-24, 94

Keying Steps:

1. Thallus foliose -2
2. Thallus some shade of gray, green... -4
4. Thallus thick or thin,m not gelatinous when wet.. 6
6. Rhizines present from lower surface.. -11
11. Perithecia absent.. -13
13. Thallus not umbilicate, broadly attached  with scattered rhizines -15
15. Thallus contains green algae.. -19
19. Medulla white.. -24
24. Without paw-shaped lobes.. -26
26. Lower surface with sparse  rhizines.. -28
28. Weak yellow, lobes vary in width.. -29
29. lobes narrow or broad.. -30
30. Thallus without pores.. -35
35. Thallus yellow-greenish.. -36

56. Lobes quite broad..57
57. Margins of lobes not ciliate.. -58
58. Without white pores.. -Flavoparmelia
Keying Steps to Species:

1. ..Thallus on trees, rarely on rock.. Flavoparmelia Caperata

Links:

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/common_greenshield.htm

http://www.radfordpl.org/wildwood/today/species_of_the_week/SOW32_greenshieldlichen.htm

http://www.radfordpl.org/wildwood/today/Fungi_Spp_pp/GrnShldLchn.html

http://www.sharonfoc.org/sightings/common_greenshield_lichen.html