Loxosporopsis corallifera #

Taxon #
Loxosporopsis corallifera
Organization #
Fruticose-Crustose Lichens
Identification #
A minutely fruticose-crustose lichen. An off white to light green thallus made of very small coral-like fruticose growths. Producing apothecia which are dark brown and with a rim which in concolorous with the thallus. Often growing with some of the Trentepohlia photobiont exposed and free growing on the surface of the lichen giving the appearance of a fine orange fuzz.
Substrate #
Rock, humus, corticolous, lignicolous
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