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General
  substrate
   soil
   calciferous rock
   bark
   rock (unspecified)
   non-calciferous rock
   wood
Thallus Growth Morphology
  crustose growth forms
   continuous
   areolate (flattened areoles)
   lobate (incl. effigurate, rosulate, placodioid, subcrustose)
Ascomata
  ascomata*
   present
   absent
  ascomata kind*
   perithecioid
   apothecioid
  hymenium paraphyses(-oids)*
   present
   absent
Asci
  ascus wall thickening
   thickened
   not thickened
  ascus dehiscence type
   prototunicate
   lecanoralean
   verrucarioid
Ascospores
  ascospores shape*
   broadly ellipsoid
   fusiform (spindle-shaped)
   globose
   ovoid
   ellipsoid
   subglobose
  ascospores septation
   present
   absent
Secondary Metabolites [general]
  secondary metabolite presence
   present
   absent
Conidiomata
  conidiomata*
   present
   absent
Upper Thallus Surface
  upper surface color - overall*
   brown
   reddish yellow
   greenish yellow
   orange
   yellow
   black
   greenish grey
   brownish green
   greyish green
   green
   greyish yellow
   yellowish red
   yellowish brown
   red
   blackish grey
   grey
   brownish grey
   greenish brown
   lime yellow (bright greenish yellow; geographicum-green)

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

James P. Bennett and Clifford M. Wetmore
Species Count: 14

Lecanoraceae

Lichinaceae

Mycosphaerellaceae

Parmeliaceae

Peltulaceae

Teloschistaceae

Verrucariaceae