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Aspicilia cuprea

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Aspicilia cuprea
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A. cuprea
Binomial name
Aspicilia cuprea
Owe-Larss. & A.Nordin (2007)

Aspicilia cuprea (copper sunken disk lichen) is a large 1–20-centimeter (0.4–7.9 in) diameter copperish-tan to brown crustose areolate lichen that forms large patches of adjacent lichens on rock (saxicolous).[1]: 225  It grows only from northern California to Baja California.[2][1] It is common and characteristic of siliceous rock in interior valley and western mountains of California.[1] One to many irregularly shaped black apothecia are sunken into the thallus.[1] Lichen spot tests are K+ red, C-, P+ orange, and I-.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e 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, [1]