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Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis, the "oldgrowth specklebelly", on a Douglas-fir trunk, southwestern Washington. This lichen is found only in the few patches of remaining old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photograph copyright Stephen/Sylvia Sharnoff