Thursday’s field trip took us to the Macarao National Park.
As always greeted by a few dogs, we made our way into the rainforest there to
find more material. The forest was not very dark, so that we found Phyllopsora on almost every tree.
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| Macarao National Park |
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The team of the day
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We found many interesting specimens; among others Phyllopsora buettneri, P. ochroxantha and P. imshaugii. We were not aware of the latter, though, before doing
TLC. So this was a nice surprise!
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| Phyllopsora buettneri |
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Phyllopsora
ochroxantha
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Just before a big rain shower started to pour down, we
managed to retreat back into the car and stopped for a delicious lunch with chicken
and lots of other unknown specialties and some tasty strawberry smoothie.
After having gained new strength and the rain had stopped,
we continued a bit further up the road and stopped on the roadside to enter a
dense forest. Unfortunately, it was a bit too dark for finding Phyllopsora (though
we managed to discover some). However, we found something else which had not
been reported from Venezuela yet: Crustospathula
amazonica!
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| Crustospathula amazonica |
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