Acarospora schleicheri: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Acarosporales
- Family
- Acarosporaceae
- Genus
- Acarospora
- Species
- Acarospora schleicheri
- Scientific Name
- Acarospora schleicheri
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acarospora schleicheri
Acarospora schleicheri, the soil paint lichen, is a bleached to bright yellow areolate to squamulose lichen that commonly grows to 10 cm (4 in) on soil (terricolous) in arid habitats of southern California and Baja California, also in Europe and Africa. It produces rhizocarpic acid as a secondary metabolite, which gives it a yellow coloration and serves to protect it from the sun. Its lower surface is also yellow. It can be greenish when moist. Roundish, angular, or irregularly shaped squamules are 0.5–4 mm in diameter. There are 0–1 (sometimes 2–3) apothecia embedded in the thallus, with 0.4–1.2 mm roundish black to reddish-brown, or dark brown discs, which sometimes fill the areola so as to be lecanorine. It divides vegetatively on the soil. Asci are club shaped (clavate) and have 100 or more spherical to ellipsoid spores. Lichen spot tests are negative, and it is UV+ orange under ultraviolet light.
...Acarospora schleicheri in languages:
- Czech
- drobnovýtruska Schleicherova
- English
- Soil Paint Lichen
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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































































































































































