Diploschistes scruposus

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Home Fungi ascomycota lecanoromycetes ostropales graphidaceae diploschistes Diploschistes scruposus

(Schreb.) Norman

1852

crater lichen

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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.: 265 It is in the family Graphidaceae. 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....read more on Wikipedia.