Bellemerea alpina
Appearance
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Bellemerea alpina in Salmon-Challis National Forest | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecideales |
Family: | Lecideaceae |
Genus: | Bellemerea |
Species: | B. alpina
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Binomial name | |
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Bellemerea alpina, the brown sunken disk lichen, is a white to pale tan, thick crustose areolate lichen that grows on rock in the mountains worldwide.[1] It grows in arctic-alpine habitats in Eurasia, North America (south to California and Arizona), Australia, and New Zealand.[1][2]: 228 Areoles are sometimes contiguous and sometimes dispersed.[2]: 228 It often has very visible black prothallus.[2]: 228 The brown to tan apothecia have a purplish tinge and are grayed by a pruinose coating, and embedded in the areoles, giving a similar appearance to members of the genus Aspicilia.[2]: 228 [1]
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