Aspicilia confusa
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| Aspicilia confusa | |
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| Aspicilia confusa Meadow Lake, Lemhi Mountains, Idaho | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Pertusariales |
| Family: | Megasporaceae |
| Genus: | Aspicilia |
| Species: | A. confusa |
| Binomial name | |
| Aspicilia confusa | |
Aspicilia confusa is a pale gray (sometimes brownish) crustose areolate lichen that grows mostly on rock in southern and central California mountains, from 250 to 3,170 metres (820 to 10,400 ft).[1]: 224–5 [2] Areoles may be contiguous or dispersed.[1]: 224 It has a dark, fringed prothallus.[1]: 224–5 Each areole commonly has 1–4 round to angular aspicilioid apothecia that are 0.1–1.5 mm in diameter, sunken into it.[2] Each apothecia has a usually concave, black disc.[1]: 224–5 [2] Lichen spot tests are all negative.[1]: 224–5 [2] It grows on rock in chaparral or forests in central and southern California, including the Sierra Nevadas, but not in the southeastern deserts of California.[1]: 224–5
