| Chocolate Chip Lichen | |
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| Solorina saccata, Schwäbisch Alb, Germany | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Peltigeraceae |
| Genus: | Solorina |
| Species: | S. saccata |
| Binomial name | |
| Solorina saccata (L.) Ach. 1808 |
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Solorina saccata, commonly called Chocolate chip lichen, is a lichen growing on calcareous rocks, usually in crevices and always in sheltered conditions. It is commonly found in Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France.[3]
It was found for the first time in Latvia in the Daugava valley near Staburags (A. Bruttan, 1870).
It belongs to the Solorina genus and Peltigeraceae family. It is also confused with Solorina simensis (Hochst. ex Flotow) in spore ornamentation and chemical properties as well as in its mainly plane apothecia and blue-green photobiont.[4]