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Sunken Button Lichen

Buellia spuria

Photo by Brian38
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Field Notes

Description:

Crustose lichen with cracked thallus and black margin. Apothecia are small black disc.

Habitat:

Spotted on an exposed boulder at Valley Of Fires in southern New Mexico.

Reference Links:

Buellia spuria - Wikipedia, Ways of Enlichenment - Lichens of North America

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