Calicium chlorosporum

Calicium chlorosporum is a crustose lichen that is found growing on trees throughout much of the world.

Calicium chlorosporum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Caliciales
Family: Caliciaceae
Genus: Calicium
Species:
C. chlorosporum
Binomial name
Calicium chlorosporum

The lichen has a pale brownish yellow to beige, verrucose, areolate or subimmersed thallus. The apothecia is 0.75 to 1.1 millimetres (0.030 to 0.043 in) high with a shining black to brownish stalk that is typically 0.8 to 0.16 millimetres (0.031 to 0.006 in) diameter.[1]

The species is found in Africa, North, Central and South America, and in Australasia.[2][1]

References

  1. "Calicium chlorosporum F. Wilson". Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  2. "Calicium chlorosporum". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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