Aspicilia cuprea

Aspicilia cuprea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Ascomycetes
Order:	Pertusariales
Family:	Megasporaceae
Genus:	Aspicilia
Species:	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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
^ Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 3, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]

External links

Aspicilia cuprea in Index Fungorum

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[SSFGCL-1] Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2

[LFGSDR-2] Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 3, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]

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