Acarospora fuscata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Acarosporales
- Family
- Acarosporaceae
- Genus
- Acarospora
- Species
- Acarospora fuscata
- Scientific Name
- Acarospora fuscata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acarospora fuscata
Acarospora fuscata ("brown cobblestone lichen") is a glossy pale or yellowish-brown areolate lichen with angular areolas that grows up to 10 cm (4 in) wide on non-calcareous rock in low and high elevations. It grows in Europe and North America. It grows in southern California and on the eastern part of the Sierra Nevada range. It may grow with the areolas disconnected. The areolas may lift at the edges, but the areolas do not overlap like true squamules (sub-squamulose). More common in the Sierras is the similar species Acarospora thamnina, which is truly squamulose with overlapping scales.
It usually has 0-1 apothecium per areole, which may be point-like (punctiform) or fill the entire areole with a disc that is rough surfaced and reddish brown. The asci are club shaped (clavate), with over 100 spores. Lichen spot tests are K−, C+ vaguely pink, KC+ red, and P−. Secondary metabolites include gyrophoric acid.
...Acarospora fuscata in languages:
- Czech
- drobnovýtruska hnědavá
- Danish
- Brun Småsporelav
- Dutch
- Bruin steenschubje
- English
- brown cobblestone lichen
- Finnish
- ruskokuoppajäkälä
- French
- acarospore brune
- Lithuanian
- Rudoji skydūnė
- Swedish
- brun spricklav
- Ukrainian
- Акароспора бурувата
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acarospora affinis
- Acarospora altoandina
- Acarospora americana
- Acarospora anomala
- Acarospora asahinae
- Acarospora austroafricana
- Acarospora badiofusca
- Acarospora boulderensis
- Acarospora brattiae
- Acarospora brodoana
- Acarospora brouardii
- Acarospora bullata
- Acarospora bylii
- Acarospora calcarea
- Acarospora calviniensis
- Acarospora canadensis
- Acarospora capensis
- Acarospora castaneocarpa
- Acarospora cervina
- Acarospora chrysops
- Acarospora citrina
- Acarospora clauzadeana
- Acarospora coloradiana
- Acarospora complanata
- Acarospora congregata
- Acarospora contigua
- Acarospora deserticola
- Acarospora elegans
- Acarospora elevata
- Acarospora epilutescens
- Acarospora epithallina
- Acarospora erratica
- Acarospora finckei
- Acarospora fuscata
- Acarospora fuscescens
- Acarospora gallica
- Acarospora glaucocarpa
- Acarospora gypsi-deserti
- Acarospora gyrodes
- Acarospora heufleriana
- Acarospora hilaris
- Acarospora immixta
- Acarospora impressula
- Acarospora initialis
- Acarospora insculpta
- Acarospora insolata
- Acarospora interjecta
- Acarospora intermixta
- Acarospora intrusa
- Acarospora janae
- Acarospora laeta
- Acarospora laevigata
- Acarospora laqueata
- Acarospora longispora
- Acarospora lucida
- Acarospora luederitzensis
- Acarospora maccarthyi
- Acarospora macrocyclos
- Acarospora macrospora
- Acarospora malouina
- Acarospora meridionalis
- Acarospora microcarpa
- Acarospora moenium
- Acarospora molybdina
- Acarospora nashii
- Acarospora negligens
- Acarospora nevadensis
- Acarospora nicolai
- Acarospora nitida
- Acarospora nitrophila
- Acarospora nodulosa
- Acarospora novomexicana
- Acarospora obnubila
- Acarospora obpallens
- Acarospora ochrophaea
- Acarospora oertendahlii
- Acarospora oligospora
- Acarospora orcuttii
- Acarospora oreophila
- Acarospora otagensis
- Acarospora piedmontensis
- Acarospora placodiiformis
- Acarospora privigna
- Acarospora pyrenopsoides
- Acarospora rhabarbarina
- Acarospora rhizobola
- Acarospora robiniae
- Acarospora rosulata
- Acarospora rouxii
- Acarospora rugulosa
- Acarospora schleicheri
- Acarospora scotica
- Acarospora sinopica
- Acarospora socialis
- Acarospora sparsa
- Acarospora sparsiuscula
- Acarospora sphaerosperma
- Acarospora squamulosa
- Acarospora stapfiana
- Acarospora steineri
- Acarospora strigata
- Acarospora subbadia
- Acarospora subochracea
- Acarospora subrufula
- Acarospora subtersa
- Acarospora succedens
- Acarospora tenuis
- Acarospora thaeodes
- Acarospora thamnina
- Acarospora thelococcoides
- Acarospora tintickiana
- Acarospora tongletii
- Acarospora tuckerae
- Acarospora umbilicata
- Acarospora veronensis
- Acarospora versicolor
- Acarospora xanthophana































































































































































