Aspicilia confusa | |
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Aspicilia confusa Meadow Lake, Lemhi Mountains, Idaho | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Pertusariales |
Family: | Megasporaceae |
Genus: | Aspicilia |
Species: | A. confusa
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Binomial name | |
Aspicilia confusa |
Aspicilia confusa is a pale gray (sometimes brownish) crustose areolate lichen that grows mostly on rock in southern and central California mountains, from 250 to 3,170 metres (820 to 10,400 ft). [1]: 224–5 [2] Areoles may be contiguous or dispersed. [1]: 224 It has a dark, fringed prothallus. [1]: 224–5 Each areole commonly has 1–4 round to angular aspicilioid apothecia that are 0.1–1.5 mm in diameter, sunken into it. [2] Each apothecia has a usually concave, black disc. [1]: 224–5 [2] Lichen spot tests are all negative. [1]: 224–5 [2] It grows on rock in chaparral or forests in central and southern California, including the Sierra Nevadas, but not in the southeastern deserts of California. [1]: 224–5