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Koerberia sonomensis

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Lecanoromycetes

Order
  
Peltigerales

Rank
  
Species

Division
  
Ascomycota

Subclass
  
Lecanoromycetidae

Family
  
Placynthiaceae

Koerberia sonomensis (Sonoma koerberia lichen) is a dark olive-green foliose lichen found in western North America mountains, Mediterranean areas of Europe, northern Africa and in the Sonoran Desert. The body (thallus) is a small .5 to 1 centimetre (0.20 to 0.39 in) rosette of leafy structures with elongate lobes to 2 millimetres (0.079 in). The upper surface is dark olive-green sometimes striped, and the lower surface is pale olive-green. The fruiting forms (apothecia) are flat to slightly convex, and deep red-brown. It is in the Koerberia genus in the Placynthiaceae family.

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Koerberia sonomensis Wikipedia