Guatavita / Cundinamarca - Colombia

Specimenes with similar habitus to 

Parmelia sp. / Hypogymnia sp. / Pannaria sp. / Physconia sp. / Physciopsis sp.

Specimen with similar habitus to

Parmelia sp.

Collection Data 

The specimenes have been collected near Guatavita (Cundinamarca / Colombia) on an Erosion Landscape between the urban area and the Guatavita Lake (Embalse de Tomine but not Laguna de Guatavita) on a height of aprox. 2.700 msnm (record) or 2.666 msnm (Google Earth) at 4°56´00 N 73°50´26 W. 

The reddish ground colour inidcates strong content of iron oxide inside ground substrate.

The specimenes have been collected in August / September of 1985