Antlered Perfume
Evernia prunastri
Description: Semi-erect or hanging leaf lichen, elongate 1-4mm wide lobes, divergently branching. Upper surface is pale greenish, margins bear tiny soredia (powdery balls), lower surface whitish green lacking rhizines.
Ecology: Common; found on deciduous and coniferous trees as well as on shrubs; found in open sites at low elevations.
Notes: This one was found growing on a decaying beachside alder in Sechelt Inlet.
Beaded Bone
Hypogymnia enteromorpha
Description: A medium hanging leaf lichen with narrow hollow lobes. The longest lobes have characteristic constrictions at intervals like an intestine (hence the name H. enteromorpha). The interior of the lobes are dark, pale grey-greenish on surface. No soredia but apothecia are present, and abundant in this specimen.
Ecology: This common lichen is found on coniferous trees in open or shady forests at all forested elevations.
Notes: This one was found at middle elevation in a second growth forest near Carlson Lake, February 2003, it was an early spring.
Tickertape Bone Lichen
Hypogymnia duplicata
Description: Medium or large sized (4-30cm) leaf lichen with whitish grey to greenish thallus above and a black lower surface, 1mm wide lobes cascade down in arcs with upturned lobe tips that are characteristic. No rhizines, soredia and isidia but brown apothecia are common.
Ecology: Common in cool moist coastal forests usually at low elevation but up to subalpine elevations in coastal localities. Grows on bark and wood, mostly of coniferous trees.
Notes: This one was found growing in a second growth forest at middle elevation on the coastal Sunshine Coast mountains, late March 2003.
Forking Tube Lichen
Hypogymnia imshaugii
Description: A medium sized semi-upright or hanging leaf lichen with an inflated, hollow thallus. It is differentiated from the very similar Forking Bone H. inactiva by its white lobe interior as opposed to the dark interior of Forking Bone. It has no holes in its lobe tips and it is dichotomously branched; its upper cortex is usually light green, and black below.
Ecology: Common from Oregon to Alaska but restricted to the west coast of North America; found growing on conifer trees in moist coniferous forests from low to middle elevation.
Notes: This one was found growing in a dense second growth coniferous forest at middle elevation, it was after a fresh rain and it was such a vibrant colour of green it seemed almost fluorescent.
