Acarospora americana

Acarospora americana is a dark brown to black verriculous to areloate or squamulose crustose lichen with deeply immersed reddish to blackish-brown apothecia found in the Sierra Nevada and other southern California mountain ranges.[1]:221 Lichen spot tests are all negative.[1]:221

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

References

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