Placidium acarosporoides

Placidium acarosporoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Subclass: Chaetothyriomycetidae
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Placidium
Species: P. acarosporoides
Binomial name
Placidium acarosporoides

Placidium acarosporoides (Mojave stipllescale) is a glossy reddish to dark brown or black squamulose lichen dotted with black perithecia that grows on rock.[1]:328[2]

Rreferences

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