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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