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substrate
bryophytes
bark
soil
non-calciferous rock
rock (unspecified)
calciferous rock
Ascomata
ascomata*
fertile
sterile
ascomata kind*
perithecioid
apothecioid
interascal hyphae (hamathecium)*
absent
present
Asci
ascus wall thickening
thickened
not thickened
ascus dehiscence type
prototunicate
unitunicate
bitunicate
lecanoralean
verrucarioid
Ascospores
ascospores shape*
fusiform-elongate (fusiform-ellipsoid)
oblong-obtuse
globose
narrowly ellipsoid
subglobose
broadly ellipsoid
ellipsoid
fusiform (spindle-shaped)
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)
bluish grey
yellowish red
greenish yellow
grey
orange
brownish green
brown
whitish yellow
red
green
yellow
reddish brown
black
brownish grey
greyish brown
reddish yellow
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