Aspicilia confusa

Aspicilia confusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Ascomycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Megasporaceae
Genus: Aspicilia
Species: A. confusa
Binomial name
Aspicilia confusa
Owe-Larss. & A. Nordin

Aspicilia confusa (***) is a pale gray (sometimes brownish) crustose areolate lichen that grows mostly on rock in southern and central California mountains, from 250 to 3,170 metres (820 to 10,400 ft).[1]:224-5[2] Areoles may be contiguous or dispersed.[1]:224 It has a dark, fringed prothallus.[1]:224-5 Each areole commonly has 1–4 round to angular aspicilioid apothecia that are 0.1–1.5 mm in diameter, sunken into it.[2] Each apothecia has a usually concave, black disc.[1]:224-5[2] Lichen spot tests are all negative.[1]:224-5[2] It grows on rock in chaparral or forests in central and southern California, including the Sierra Nevadas, but not in the southeastern deserts of California.[1]:224-5

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 3, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001,
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