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Varicellaria kasandjeffii

Varicellaria kasandjeffii is a species of crustose lichen in the family Varicellariaceae. It forms a thick, milk-white crust dotted with small rounded to cylindrical bumps, and grows on volcanic rock in mountainous regions of southeastern Europe. Originally described in 1930 from Bulgaria's Rhodope Mountains, the species was later transferred to the genus Varicellaria based on its discoid fruiting bodies and distinctive chemistry, which includes lecanoric and variolaric acids.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1438860.