Biology:Caloplaca saxicola
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Caloplaca |
| Species: | C. saxicola
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| Caloplaca saxicola (Hoffm.) Nordin
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Caloplaca saxicola is a small bright orange crustose lichen that grows on rock all over the world.[2]:245–6 It is commonly called rock firedot lichen,[2]:245 jewel lichen or rock jewel lichen.
It has short, inflated looking elongate 1–2 mm and .3-.1 mm wide lobes that have an abrupt margin at the edge, and no prothallus.[3] It lacks isidia or soredia.[3] Apothecia may be immersed in the thallus or adnate to it, with rims of thallus-like tissue (lecanorine) with orange, flat, .4–1 mm wide epruinose discs.[3] Aptohecia develop near the lobe tips. C. ignea and C. impolita are similar but bigger, and have apothecia that form near the thallus center.[3]
In California , it is one of the most common saxicolous lichens.[2]:245–6 This lichen occurs over a portion of northern North America.[4] A specific example occurrence is within the northern reaches of the Canada Boreal forests, where Black Spruce is a dominant tree.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Caloplaca saxicola in Index Fungorum
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN:978-0-300-19500-2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 3, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]
- ↑ Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff and Susan Laurie-Bourque. 2001
- ↑ Michael Hogan. 2008. Black Spruce: Picea mariana, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
Wikidata ☰ Q5023253 entry
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