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substrate
bark
soil
calciferous rock
rock (unspecified)
bryophytes
non-calciferous rock
Ascomata
ascomata*
absent
present
ascomata kind*
apothecioid
perithecioid
hymenium paraphyses(-oids)*
present
absent
Asci
ascus wall thickening
not thickened
thickened
ascus dehiscence type
prototunicate
unitunicate
bitunicate
lecanoralean
verrucarioid
Ascospores
ascospores shape*
globose
fusiform (spindle-shaped)
broadly ellipsoid
narrowly ellipsoid
fusiform-elongate (fusiform-ellipsoid)
ellipsoid
subglobose
oblong-obtuse
ascospores septation
absent
present
ascospores wall pigmentation*
hyaline
medium brownish
Secondary Metabolites [general]
secondary metabolite presence
present
absent
Photobionts
primary photobiont kind
cyanobacterioid
chlorococcoid
Upper Thallus Surface
upper surface color - overall*
bright white (atranorin white; vermicularis-white)
orange
brownish green
whitish yellow
reddish brown
reddish yellow
greyish brown
grey
yellowish red
black
greenish yellow
red
green
yellow
brownish grey
bluish grey
brown
upper surface pruina - presence/absence*
absent
present
James P. Bennett and Clifford M. Wetmore
Species Count: 10
Acarosporaceae
Acarospora schleicheri
Acarospora strigata
Candelariaceae
Candelariella rosulans
Lichinaceae
Heppia lutosa
Peccania texana
Physciaceae
Phaeophyscia kairamoi
Psoraceae
Psora tuckermanii
Teloschistaceae
Calogaya decipiens
Xanthomendoza trachyphylla
Verrucariaceae
Placidium lachneum