Biology:Buellia dispersa
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Short description: Species of lichen in the family Caliciaceae
Buellia dispersa | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Caliciales |
Family: | Caliciaceae |
Genus: | Buellia |
Species: | B. dispersa
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Binomial name | |
Buellia dispersa A.Massal. (1856)
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Buellia dispersa is a dull white to beige or dark brown crustose areolate lichen that grows on non-calcareous rock, such as basalt, granite and gneiss, in arid to semi-arid areas of northern Africa, Europe, and southwestern North America.[1][2] The areolas are distinct, becoming subsquamulose (lifting up at the edges) when separated and collecting in irregular patches, otherwise they form rosettes with lobed margins.[1] There is no prothallus.[1] It commonly occurs in the Mojave Desert, Channel Islands, and Santa Monica Mountains, also in the Cuyamaca Mountains, Santa Ana Mountains, and San Jacinto Mountains.[2] It is among the most common lichen species in the Sonoran Desert.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region; Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.), 2001, Vol 3, [1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Buellia dispersa in the Joshua Tree National Park (California, U.S.A.) Map collection; Kerry Knudsen, Kocourková Jana; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Ecology, Czech Republic, 2012, [2]
Wikidata ☰ Q10437303 entry
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