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Sporastatia
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Sporastatia

Sporastatia is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Sporastatiaceae. It has four species. Sporastatia lichens are long-lived species that grow on siliceous or weakly calcareous rocks in arctic and alpine locales.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Copper Patch Lichen

speciesSporastatia testudinea

Sporastatia polyspora

speciesSporastatia polyspora

Sporastatia subasiatica

speciesSporastatia subasiatica

Sporastatia austrogeorgica

speciesSporastatia austrogeorgica

Sporastatia asiatica

speciesSporastatia asiatica

Sporastatia nigra

speciesSporastatia nigra

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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 175044.