Bellemerea alpina
Bellemerea alpina in Salmon-Challis National Forest
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecideales
Family: Lecideaceae
Genus: Bellemerea
Species:
B. alpina
Binomial name
Bellemerea alpina
Synonyms
  • Lecanora alpina Sommerf. (1826)

Bellemerea alpina, the brown sunken disk lichen, is a white to pale tan, thick crustose areolate lichen that grows on rock in the mountains worldwide.[1] It grows in arctic-alpine habitats in Eurasia, North America (south to California and Arizona), Australia, and New Zealand.[1][2]: 228  Areoles are sometimes contiguous and sometimes dispersed.[2]: 228  It often has very visible black prothallus.[2]: 228  The brown to tan apothecia have a purplish tinge and are grayed by a pruinose coating, and embedded in the areoles, giving a similar appearance to members of the genus Aspicilia.[2]: 228  [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bellemerea alpina, Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001,
  2. 1 2 3 4 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2


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