Koerberia sonomensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Peltigerales |
Family: | Koerberiaceae |
Genus: | Koerberia |
Species: | K. sonomensis
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Binomial name | |
Koerberia sonomensis | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Vestergrenopsis sonomensis (Tuck.) T. Sprib. & Muggia |
Koerberia sonomensis, the Sonoma koerberia lichen, is a dark olive-green foliose lichen found in western North America mountains, [2]: 8 Mediterranean areas of Europe, northern Africa and in the Sonoran Desert. [3] The body ( thallus) is a small .5 to 1 centimetre (0.20 to 0.39 in) rosette of leafy structures with elongate lobes to 2 millimetres (0.079 in). The upper surface is dark olive-green sometimes striped, and the lower surface is pale olive-green. The fruiting forms ( apothecia) are flat to slightly convex, and deep red-brown. It is in the Koerberia genus in the Placynthiaceae family.