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Calvitimela austrochilensis
2011Summary
Calvitimela austrochilensis is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Tephromelataceae, found in southern Chile and possibly on Marion Island. It has a creamy-white to yellow thallus with a cracked surface and distinctive blue-black reproductive structures. The lichen contains atranorin and other unidentified compounds and forms a symbiotic relationship with a green alga. First described in 2011 from a specimen collected on Desolación Island, it grows in moorland habitats and is known from only a few locations....read more on Wikipedia.
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| Place | Rain (24h) | Sun | Humidity Hum. | Wind | |
| Loading... | 0.8in | 918umol | 64% | 4mph | |
| Loading... | 1.2in | 12umol | 84% | 9mph | |
| Loading... | 0in | 18umol | 81% | 11mph | |
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