Bellemerea alpina

Bellemerea alpina
B. alpina in Salmon-Challis National Forest
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Lecideaceae
Genus: Bellemerea
Species: B. alpina
Binomial name
Bellemerea alpine
(Sommerf.) Clauzade & Roux

Bellemerea alpina (brown sunken disk lichen) is a white to pale tan, thick crustose areolate lichen that grows on rock in the mountains worldwide.[1] It grows in arctic-alpine habitats in Eurasia, North America (south to California and Arizona), Australia, and New Zealand.[1][2]:228 Areoles are sometimes contiguous and sometimes dispersed.[2]:228 It often has very visible black prothallus.[2]:228 The brown to tan apothecia have a purplish tinge and are grayed by a pruinose coating, and embedded in the areoles, giving a similar appearance to members of the genus Aspicilia.[2]:228 [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bellemerea alpina, Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001,
  2. 1 2 3 4 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
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