Caloplaca trachyphylla
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| Firedot Lichen (Caloplaca trachyphylla), Mount Baden-Powell, San Gabriel Mountains, Southern California | |
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| Species: | C. trachyphylla
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Caloplaca trachyphylla (desert firedot lichen)[1]: 27 is an orange crustose lichen that grows on rock in Europe, North America, and northern Asia. Crostose placoidioid lobes are elongate.
It differs from Caloplaca saxicola in that C. trachyphylla it has a larger thallus and has lobes with tiny warts on them (verruculose).
References
- ^ The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, John Muir Laws , 2007
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