squamulose


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covered with tiny scales

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However, the name was widely misapplied in the past to multiple squamulose pyrenolichens in eastern North America and the record requires verification.
Sample 1d: Campsite 40; squamulose lichen on a rock; slides SMLA 14064-14065.
The growth form of each lichen was determined: foliose (leaf-like), crustose (crust-like), fruticose (shrub-like) or squamulose (scale-like).
Thirty-one (45%) lichens are crustose, 27 (39%) are foliose, 8 (12%) are fruticose and 3 (4%) are squamulose. Twenty-six species (38%) are considered to be rare, 19 (28%) are common, 13 (18%) are occasional and 11 (16%) are frequent.
Nebraska records are near the northern edge of the range for this southern species that consists of closely aggregated, squamulose to lobate areoles.
Most lichens have a foliose or crustose growth form while fruticose, squamulose and dimorphic growth forms are clearly less common (Figure 3).
Thallus brown (or green when wet), squamulose; spores muriform ENDOCARPON 4.
This species is usually easy to recognize by its brown and squamulose primary thallus, but not very often encountered.
The epithet aspera has been used by many authors to squamulose morphs of Cladonia gracilis subsp.