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General
  substrate
   non-calciferous rock
   calciferous rock
   bark
   soil
   rock (unspecified)
   bryophytes
Ascomata
  ascomata*
   absent
   present
  ascomata kind*
   apothecioid
   perithecioid
  hymenium paraphyses(-oids)*
   absent
   present
Asci
  ascus wall thickening
   not thickened
   thickened
  ascus dehiscence type
   prototunicate
   unitunicate
   bitunicate
   lecanoralean
   verrucarioid
Ascospores
  ascospores shape*
   ellipsoid
   narrowly ellipsoid
   fusiform-elongate (fusiform-ellipsoid)
   globose
   broadly ellipsoid
   fusiform (spindle-shaped)
   oblong-obtuse
   subglobose
  ascospores septation
   present
   absent
  ascospores wall pigmentation*
   medium brownish
   hyaline
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)
   reddish yellow
   brownish green
   orange
   bluish grey
   whitish yellow
   greyish brown
   brown
   black
   green
   yellowish red
   red
   greenish yellow
   brownish grey
   grey
   yellow
   reddish brown
  upper surface pruina - presence/absence*
   absent
   present

Death Valley National Park (California, Nevada)

James P. Bennett and Clifford M. Wetmore
Species Count: 10

Acarosporaceae

Candelariaceae

Lichinaceae

Physciaceae

Psoraceae

Teloschistaceae

Verrucariaceae