Kingdom Fungi Class Lecanoromycetes Family Thelotremataceae Rank Species | Division Ascomycota Order Ostropales Genus Diploschistes | |
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Similar Diploschistes, Pertusaria amara, Aspicilia cinerea, Candelariella vitellina, Acarospora fuscata | ||
Diploschistes scruposus (crater lichen) is a pale gray to white, warty to cracked (areolate) crustose lichen with black, urn-shaped (urceolate) fruiting bodies (apothecia). It is found worldwide on growing on rock (saxicolous) that is siliceous, in open areas in Mediterranean, temperate and polar areas, from the low tropics to high altitudes. It is in the Thelotremataceae family. In California, it is the most common member of the Diploschistes genus. It is not covered in a powdery white coating (epruinose), which distinguishes it from other members of the genus.
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