Kingdom Fungi Class Lecanoromycetes Family Acarosporaceae Rank Species | Division Ascomycota Order Acarosporales Genus Acarospora | |
Similar Acarospora socialis, Acarospora thamnina, Acarospora schleicheri, Acarospora fuscata, Acarosporaceae | ||
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. Lichen spot test]]s are all negative.
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