Koerberia sonomensis
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| Koerberia sonomensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Koerberiaceae |
| Genus: | Koerberia |
| Species: | K. sonomensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Koerberia sonomensis | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Vestergrenopsis sonomensis (Tuck.) T. Sprib. & Muggia | |
Koerberia sonomensis, the Sonoma koerberia lichen, is a dark olive-green foliose lichen found in western North America mountains,[2]: 8 Mediterranean areas of Europe, northern Africa and in the Sonoran Desert.[3] The body (thallus) is a small .5 to 1 centimetre (0.20 to 0.39 in) rosette of leafy structures with elongate lobes to 2 millimetres (0.079 in). The upper surface is dark olive-green sometimes striped, and the lower surface is pale olive-green. The fruiting forms (apothecia) are flat to slightly convex, and deep red-brown. It is in the Koerberia genus in the Placynthiaceae family.
