Fall Foray to Morgan County
October 7-8, 2017

The 2017 OMLA Fall Foray was held in Morgan County, Ohio. Collection locations included Burr Oak State Park, Wildcat Hollow (part of Wayne National Forest), Ringgold Cemetery, and the farm of OMLA member Julie Tome.

The areas in which we collected (western and central Morgan County) offered habitats including mature and secondary deciduous forests, boulders and outcrops, streambeds, flood plains, and man-made substrates. Our scope room in the Burr Oak State Park Lodge included a beautiful view of the lake, and many of us stayed the weekend in the park, whether in the lodge, cabins, or campground.

Lichens found during the Fall Foray totaled 119; 63 macrolichen species and 56 crustose species. Microscopic examination also revealed 2 species of lichenicolous fungi. These fungi which are parasitic upon lichens are sometimes included in a comprehensive lichen list. Most of the macrolichens observed had already been reported for Morgan County but 16 were new county records, bringing the county total to 83. The distribution of crust lichens in Ohio is only now being studied, so the crustose species are not noted as new.

There is not a recent comprehensive list of liverwort records by county for Ohio. The most recent known to us is a 1964 work by
Harvey Miller, which shows no records for Morgan County. So the 9 species found during the Fall Foray might all be considered new county records.

Mosses found during the Fall Foray totaled 68, of which 49 are new Morgan County records. This more than doubled the
Morgan County moss record count, from 37 to 84

These records emphasize the need to preserve natural areas in Ohio and also to survey areas which have not been visited by lichen and moss experts.

–Bill and Carole Schumacher

For further information about this most excellent foray, look in Volume 14 (2017) of the Association’s newsletter, OBELISK.

Lichens of the 2017 Fall Foray in Morgan County
* = new county record
▲ = lichenicolous fungus
Nomenclature follows the North American Lichen Checklist

Acarospora canadensis
A. fuscata
Amandinia punctata
Anaptychia palmulata
Arthonia susa
Bacidia ekmaniana
B. shweinitzii
B. sorediata
Biatora printzenii
Bryoria furcellata*
Buellia erubescens
Caloplaca pratensis
Candelaria concolor
Candelariella efflorescens
Canoparmelia texana*
Chrysothrix caesia
Circinerea caesiocinerea
Cladonia coniocraea
C. cristatella
C. cylindrica
C. furcata
C. macilenta*
C. parasitica*
C. squamosa
Coenogonium pineti
Crespoa crozalsiana
Dermatocarpon luridum
D. muhlenbergii
Endocarpon pallidulum
Evernia mesomorpha*
Flavoparmelia baltimorensis
F. caperata
Flavopunctelia soredica
Fuscidea arboricola
Graphis scripta
Gyalolechia flavovirescens
Heterodermia granulifera
H. hypoleuca*
H. obscurata*
H. speciosa
Hypocenomyce scalaris
Hypogymnia physodes
Hypotrachyna livida
H. minarum
Julella fallaciosa
Lecania croatica
Lecanora hybocarpa
L. strobilinia
L. subimmergens
L. thysanophora
Lecidea varians
Lecidella carpathica
Lepra pustulata
Lepraria caesiella
L. finkii
L. normandinoides
Leptogium cyanescens
Loxospora elatina
Marchandiomyces corallinus▲
Melanelixia subaurifera
Micarea peliocarpa
Muellerella lichenicola▲
Myelochroa aurulenta
M. galbina
Myriolecis dispersa
Nadvornikia sorediata
Ochrolechia arborea
O. pseudopallescens
O. yasudae
Parmelia squarrosa
P. sulcata
Parmotrema gardneri*
P. hypotropum
P. reticulatum
Peltigera canina
P. evansiana
Pertusaria plittiana
Phaeophyscia adiastola
P. decolor
P. hirsuta*
P. hirtella*
P. pusilloides
P. rubropulchra
P. squarrosa
Phlyctis petraea
Physcia adscendens
P. americana
P. millegrana
P. phaea
P. stellaris
Physciella chloantha*
Physconia detersa*
Porpidia albocaerulescens
P. crustulata
Protoblastenia rupestris
Pseudosagedia cestrensis
Punctelia caseana
P. missouriensis
P. rudecta
Pyrenula pseudobufonia
Pyxine sorediata
P. subcinerea
Ropalospora viridis
Sarcogyne clavus
S. regularis
Sarea difformis
S. resinae
Scoliciosporum pensylvanicum
Scytinium juniperinum
S. lichenoides
Squamulea subsoluta
Trapelia glebulosa
T. placodioides
Trypethelium virens
Usnea cornuta*
U. mutabilis*
U. strigosa
Verrucaria nigrescens
Xanthocarpia feracissima
Xanthomendoza weberi*
Xanthoparmelia plittii*

Liverworts of the 2017 Fall Foray in Morgan County
* = new county record

Conocephalum conicum
Frullania eboracensis
F. inflata
Geocaylx graveolens
Lophocolea heterophylla
Metzgeria furcata
Nowellia curvifolia
Porella platyphylloidea
Scapania nemorea

Mosses of the 2017 Fall Foray in Morgan County
* = new county record

Amblystegium varium
Anacamptodon splachnoides*
Anomodon attenuatus
A. minor*
A. rostratus*
Atrichum angustatum
A. crispulum*
Aulacomnium heterostichum*
Barbula unguiculata*
Bartramia pomiformis*
Brachythecium acuminatum*
B. campestre*
B. laetum
B. plumosum
B. rutabulum
Bryhnia novae-angliae*
Bryoandersonia illecebra
Bryum argenteum
B. flaccidum*
Callicladium haldanianum*
Calliergonella lindbergii*
C. curvifolium*
Ctenidium molluscum*
Cyrto-hypnum pygmaeum*
Dicranella heteromalla*
Dicranodontium denudatum*
Dicranum flagellare*
D. montanum*
D. scoparium
Didymodon ferrugineus*
Entodon seductrix
Eurhynchium hians*
E. pulchellum*
E. riparioides*
Fabronia ciliaris*
Fissidens dubius*
F. osmundioides*
F. taxifolius*
Haplocladium virginianum*
Haplohymenium triste*
Homalotheciella subcapillata*
Homomallium adnatum
Hygroamblystegium tenax*
Hyophila involuta*
Hypnum curvifolium*
H. imponens
H. pallescens*
Isopterygiopsis pulchella*
Leskea gracilescens*
Leucobryum glaucum
Orthotrichum pusillum*
O. stellatum
Oxyrrhynchium hians*
Plagiomnium cuspidatum
P. ellipticum*
Platygyrium repens*
Pogonatum pensilvanicum*
Polytrichum ohioense
Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris*
Rhizomnium punctatum
Rhynchostegium serrulatum*
Schistidium apocarpum*
S. rivulare
Sematophyllum adnatum*
S. demissum*
Taxiphyllum taxirameum*
Thuidium delicatulum
Ulota crispa*