Friday, November 18, 2011

Specimen #8-Disc Lichen

Name: Buellia halonia- Disc Lichen
Family:  Physciaceae

Collection Date:  09/13/2011
Habitat: On Red Maple tree bark found on trail
Location: South Chagrin Reservation, Chagrin Ohio
Description:  Crustose, continuous to dispersed, rimose or areolate, sometimes subsquamulous. Frequently present, usually dark rarely unpigmented, often forming only a thin black outline delimiting the thallus border. Apothecial, usually plane, black. 
Collector:  Vanessa Consolo
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