Consortium of Lichen HerbariaWeb-KeyLower Desert Regions

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Home >> Checklist: Lower Desert Regions >> Previous version of Key >> Identification Key (new version): Lower Desert Regions Filter/Display Options Family/Genus Filter: Sort by: Display images: General substrate bryophytes wood rock (unspecified) non-calciferous rock soil bark calciferous rock lichens life habit lichenized lichenicolous Ascomata ascomata* present absent ascomata kind* perithecioid apothecioid hymenium paraphyses(-oids)* present absent Asci ascus wall thickening thickened not thickened ascus wall amyloidity absent present ascus dehiscence type prototunicate unitunicate bitunicate lecanoralean verrucarioid Ascospores ascospores septation present absent ascospores wall pigmentation* medium brownish pale brownish hyaline dark brownish Secondary Metabolites [general] secondary metabolite presence present absent Photobionts primary photobiont kind chlorococcoid cyanobacterioid Upper Thallus Surface upper surface color - overall* bright white (atranorin white; vermicularis-white) grayish white greenish white brownish white yellowish white reddish white yellowish red greyish yellow brownish grey blackish grey red brown reddish yellow green bluish grey yellow blue brownish black blackish brown orange whitish grey whitish red yellowish brown greenish brown brownish yellow (buff) whitish brown greyish green whitish yellow greenish yellow bluish green greenish grey lime yellow (bright greenish yellow; geographicum-green) greyish blue grey reddish grey brownish red reddish brown yellowish grey brownish green black greyish brown Lower Desert Regions Species Count: 105 Acarosporaceae Acarospora affinis Acarospora badiofusca Acarospora calcarea Acarospora contigua Acarospora nodulosa Acarospora obnubila Acarospora obpallens Acarospora socialis Acarospora squamulosa Acarospora strigata Acarospora succedens Acarospora thamnina Acarospora tuckerae Acarospora veronensis Trimmatothelopsis dispersa Caliciaceae Buellia badia Buellia dispersa Buellia nashii Buellia sequax Candelariaceae Candelariella citrina Candelariella rosulans Candelina submexicana Collemataceae Blennothallia crispa Enchylium coccophorum Enchylium tenax Graphidaceae Diploschistes actinostomus Diploschistes caesioplumbeus Lecanoraceae Lecanora argopholis Lecanora cenisia Lecanora nashii Lecanora pseudistera Protoparmeliopsis bipruinosa Protoparmeliopsis garovaglii Protoparmeliopsis muralis Rhizoplaca novomexicana Lichinaceae Anema progidulum Digitothyrea polyglossa Heppia adglutinata Heppia conchiloba Heppia despreauxii Heppia lutosa Megasporaceae Aspicilia americana Aspicilia desertorum Aspicilia determinata Aspicilia olivaceobrunnea Lobothallia alphoplaca Lobothallia praeradiosa Lobothallia radiosa Parmeliaceae Xanthoparmelia tinctina Xanthoparmelia weberi Peltulaceae Peltula bolanderi Peltula euploca Peltula farinosa Peltula michoacanensis Peltula obscurans Peltula omphaliza Peltula patellata Peltula placodizans Peltula psammophila Peltula richardsii Peltula zahlbruckneri Physciaceae Hyperphyscia adglutinata Phaeophyscia hirsuta Physcia caesia Physcia dimidiata Physcia poncinsii Polyblastidium albicans Psoraceae Psora crenata Psora decipiens Psora icterica Psora luridella Psora russellii Ramalinaceae Thalloidima sedifolium Stereocaulaceae Lepraria vouauxii Teloschistaceae Caloplaca pellodella Pyrenodesmia albovariegata Squamulea parviloba Squamulea phyllidizans Squamulea squamosa Squamulea subsoluta Tayloriellina microphyllina Verrucariaceae Catapyrenium pilosellum Catapyrenium squamulosum Clavascidium lacinulatum Dermatocarpon americanum Dermatocarpon reticulatum Dermatocarpon taminium Endocarpon loscosii Endocarpon pallidulum Endocarpon petrolepideum Endocarpon pusillum Placidium acarosporoides Placidium chilense Placidium michelii Placopyrenium stanfordii Staurothele areolata Staurothele lecideoides Staurothele monicae Verrucaria falcata Verrucaria furfuracea Verrucaria fuscoatroides Verrucaria incrassata Verrucaria inficiens Verrucaria maculicarpa Verrucaria othmarii
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