Phaeophyscia rubropulchra

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Common Name

Orange-cored Shadow Lichen

Family

Physciaceae

Genus

Phaeophyscia

Species

rubropulchra

Synonyms

Physcia rubropulchra; Physcia endochrysea; Physcia orbicularis forma rubropulchra

Location Found

Unknown

Growth Structure

Foliose

Habitat

Commonly found on the bark of deciduous trees in shaded forests.

Environmental Monitoring

It is generally a pollution tolerant lichen, and tolerant to sulphur and nitrous oxides and reduced nitrogen.

Lab Storage

Comments

N/A

References

Brodo et al, 2001.; Newmaster & Ragupathy, 2012.; Will-Wolf et al, 2015.