Fluffy Dust Lichen

Speciman #5

Name: Lepraria Lobificans- Fluffy Dust Lichen

Family:  Teloschistaceae 

Collection Date:  09/13/2011

Habitat: Found on overhanging rock bank by shoreline along Chagrin River on Squaw Rock Trail

Location: South Chagrin Reservation, Chagrin Ohio

Description: Thallus a diffuse, thick powdery crust. Pale to greenish with a white medulla. Granules commonly projecting cottony hyphae. On rocks, walls and tree-trunks. 

Collector:  Vanessa Consolo  

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Links:

http://www.sharnoffphotos.com/lichensD /lepraria_lobificans.html

http://www.irishlichens.ie/pages-lichen/l-147.html

http://symbiota.org/nalichens/taxa/index.php?taxon=52315

http://www.lichens.lastdragon.org/Lepraria_lobificans.html

Figure 1-Fluffy Dust Lichen on rock with spider eggs with the lichen

Figure 3-Close up of Fluffy Dust Lichen off of substrate

Figure 2-Fluffy Dust Lichen showing a powdery surface

Figure 4- Fluffy Dust Lichen on rock wall