Sketch #4 from the Visio Tnugdali series, 2016
Acrylics and ink on paper, 21 x 11 cm
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Small lovely things… Olympic National Park, May 2015
Found in the drafts folder: Autumn observations. Värmland, Sweden.
Nephroma parile
If you know your Latin, you might recognize the prefix nephro in Nephroma parile as the word for kidney. The Nephroma genus is named for their typically kidney-shaped fruiting bodies (apothecia). But uh, N. parile doesn’t have kidney-shaped apothecia (they are typically cup-shaped or orbicular). In fact it rarely ever has apothecia at all. But if you are a real Latin nerd, you might know that parile comes from the Latin for “equal” or “like.” So what the name is saying is that in spite of his lack of kidneys, this guy is a lot like other members of his genera. Make sense? Not really? Don’t worry about it. Scientific names can be pretty wonky sometimes. This foliose lichen grows in fluffy, reddish-brown or bluish-gray rosettes in boreal and north-temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It can usually be found chilling on mossy rocks and tree trunks in spruce-fir forests or moist canyons at mid to high elevations. And we love him because of his differences from the rest of his genus–not in spite of them.
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