Diploschistes scruposus

Diploschistes scruposus
Diploschistes scruposus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Ostropales
Family: Thelotremataceae
Genus: Diploschistes
Species: D. scruposus
Binomial name
Diploschistes scruposus

Diploschistes scruposus (crater lichen) is a pale gray to white, warty to cracked (areolate) crustose lichen with black, urn-shaped (urceolate) fruiting bodies (apothecia). It is found worldwide on growing on rock (saxicolous) that is siliceous, in open areas in Mediterranean, temperate and polar areas, from the low tropics to high altitudes.[1]:265[2] It is in the Thelotremataceae family. In California, it is the most common member of the Diploschistes genus. It is not covered in a powdery white coating (epruinose),[1] which distinguishes it from other members of the genus.[2]

References

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