Nordic lichen Society Steinkjer 3-6 august 2015
Day 3 in the field at Snåsa (Bergsåsens Nature Reserv)
calcareous pine forest and calcareous rocks
Snåsa
Third excursion in the field thursday 6 of august!
Foto och text (with help of Staffan Wall and others) Aimon Niklasson

Einar Timdal with group on way up on Bergsåsen

Whats growing on top av an old Juniperus? Ulrika Nordin and Fredrik Jonsson Sweden in the background and Harald Bratli Norway on top

Fredrik och Ulrika show Protoparmelia oleagina a wood living lichen often parasitized by Sphinctrina anglica

Imshaugia aleurites

Imshaugia aleurites

Mycoblastus sanguinarius spontaneously colored

Hypogymnia farinacea

Gymnocarpium robertianum with lots of glandulae and yes its calcium in the ground!

Cladonia rangiferina without usnic acid

Cladonia stellata in older time used for winter window isolation at least in Sweden

Probably
Pyrola media instead of what I hoped for Pyrola rotundifolia sp. norvegica since too straight style

Probably
Pyrola media instead of what I hoped for Pyrola rotundifolia sp. norvegica since too straight style. Leave

Probably
Pyrola media instead of what I hoped for Pyrola rotundifolia sp. norvegica since too straight style. Leave

Plenty of Epipactes atrorubens in some places problem to find a place for a foot

Epipactes atrorubens no insects been there yet

Cetraria islandica

Gymnadenia conopsea

Acarospora cervina??

Tortella tortuosa (not checked in the microscope)

Asplenium ruta-muraria typical for calcium rich stone

Fissidens sp not yet in the microscope

Collema/Leptogium?

Dryas octopetala in patches

Dryas octopetala

East end (of lake Snåsa!)

Maria Prieto Spain, Fredrik Jonsson Sweden and Håkon Holien

Dactylorhiza maculata sp fuchsii is a god guess on this calcareous ground

Path to the lake

The eccentric elevated bog

the bog itself

Lake Snåsa with snow left in the mountain beginning of august

The bog again

Peltigera?

Aconitum lycoctonum ssp. septentrionale

Rosa majalis

Rosa majalis

Group at the lake for lunch

Mika tries to take photographs at the lake

Mika Bendiksby a good reason for the good organization of the congress

The peaceful lake on Bergsåsen

Circium helenioides

Placynthium nigrans Shown by Einar

Acrocordia glaucocarpa

Phlyctis argena color reaction y/r

Ochrolechia szatalaënsis? lichen on Juniper with crystals that become glittering gold coloured in UV light,
suggested by Fredrik to be this species

Parmeliella triptophylla

Psoroma hypnorum

Einar explaining

Baeomyces placophyllus if K+ y is enough

Some history




Not only lichenologist work on stone! The famous reindeer at Bøla in natural size
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