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 

Aspicilia confusa
Aspicilia confusa Meadow Lake, Lemhi Mountains, Idaho
Aspicilia confusa Meadow Lake, Lemhi Mountains, Idaho
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Megasporaceae
Genus: Aspicilia
Species:
A. confusa
Binomial name
Aspicilia confusa
Owe-Larss. & A. Nordin

References
  1. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  2. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 3, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, http://lichenportal.org/portal/taxa/index.php?taxon=126036


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