Bellemerea alpina

Bellemerea alpina
	B. alpina in Salmon-Challis National Forest
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	Lecideaceae
Genus:	Bellemerea
Species:	B. alpina
Binomial name
	Bellemerea alpine; (Sommerf.) Clauzade & Roux

Bellemerea alpina (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]

References

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

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

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

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