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Lecidella scabra

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A sketchbook page from my visit to Stebbins Cold Canyon last week. I got engrossed in lichens, enjoying the bare winter landscape. #stebbinscoldcanyon #ucnaturalreserve #californiaquail #callipeplacalifornica #goldspecklichen #candelariella #rockshieldlichen #xanthoparmelia #parasiticbuttonlichen #buelliabadia #disklichen #lecidella #firedotlichen #caloplaca #lichenology #sciart https://www.instagram.com/p/Btl-lxyAPcp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e5o04bv0i7e4

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Lecidella wulfenii

Moss lecidella

This crustose lichen has a granular-papilate, warty thallus which grows on bryophytes and plant debris. It is pale gray, brown, or green in color, and has black apothecia with plane discs and thin margins. It has a chlorococcoid, green algal photobiont. L. wulfenii can be found in temperate and arctic-alpine regions of Asia, Europe, and North America.

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Lecidella stigmatea

This crustose lichen has a thallus resembling cracked-clay or ceramic tiles, white-gray, brown-gray or green-gray in color. It produces black apothecia with a flat or slightly bulging disc and thin margin. It can be found in growing on rock in temperate regions of Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.

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