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Acarospora americana

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Species of fungus

Acarospora americana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Acarosporales
Family: Acarosporaceae
Genus: Acarospora
Species: A. americana
Binomial name
Acarospora americana
H.Magn. (1929)

Acarospora americana is a dark brown to black verruculose to areolate or squamulose crustose lichen with deeply immersed reddish to blackish-brown apothecia found in the Sierra Nevada and other southern California mountain ranges. Lichen spot tests are all negative.

References

  1. ^ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
Taxon identifiers
Acarospora americana


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