Biology:Apsicilia pacifica

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Apsicilia pacifica
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A. pacifica
Binomial name
Aspicilia pacifica
Owe-Larss. & A. Nordin

Aspicilia pacifica (pacific sunken disk lichen) is a white to grayish, brownish, or ocher crustose areolate lichen that commonly grows on siliceous rock or basalt along the seashore and in higher coastal mountains of California and Baja California.[1]:2**[2] It has numerous small (0.1- .8 mm), round to angular apothecia toward the middle of the thallus, with concave to flat black discs that are sometimes lightened with white pruina.[2] Lichen spot test on the cortex and medulla are I-, K+ yellow to red, P+ orange, and C-.[2] Secondary metabolites include much stictic acid, and some norstictic acid.[2]

References

  1. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN:978-0-300-19500-2
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aspicilia pacifica, Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 3, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]

Wikidata ☰ Q20685931 entry