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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Caliciales |
| Family: | Caliciaceae |
| Genus: | Dimelaena |
| Species: | D. oreina
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| Binomial name | |
| Dimelaena oreina | |
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Dimelaena oreina, the golden moonglow lichen, is a greenish yellow placodioid lichen. [2] The color of the greenish yellow thallus is derived from usnic acid in the cortex. [2]
Habitat and range
The lichen grows on steep surfaces of hard siliceous rock from 400 to 2,800 metres (1,300 to 9,200 ft). [2] It has a worldwide distribution outside the tropics, Australasia, and Antarctica. [2] It is common in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, California, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Mexico, and Chihuahua, Mexico. [2]
References
- ^ Norman JM. (1852). "Conatus praemissus redactionis novae generum nonnullorum Lichenum in organis fructificationes vel sporis fundatae". Nytt Magazin for Naturvidenskapene (in Latin). 7: 213–52 (see p. 231).
- ^ a b c d e Dimelaena oreina, Encyclopedia of Life
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| Dimelaena oreina | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Caliciales |
| Family: | Caliciaceae |
| Genus: | Dimelaena |
| Species: | D. oreina
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| Binomial name | |
| Dimelaena oreina | |
| Synonyms | |
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Dimelaena oreina, the golden moonglow lichen, is a greenish yellow placodioid lichen. [2] The color of the greenish yellow thallus is derived from usnic acid in the cortex. [2]
Habitat and range
The lichen grows on steep surfaces of hard siliceous rock from 400 to 2,800 metres (1,300 to 9,200 ft). [2] It has a worldwide distribution outside the tropics, Australasia, and Antarctica. [2] It is common in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, California, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Mexico, and Chihuahua, Mexico. [2]
References
- ^ Norman JM. (1852). "Conatus praemissus redactionis novae generum nonnullorum Lichenum in organis fructificationes vel sporis fundatae". Nytt Magazin for Naturvidenskapene (in Latin). 7: 213–52 (see p. 231).
- ^ a b c d e Dimelaena oreina, Encyclopedia of Life
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