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Buellia concinna
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Buellia concinna

Buellia concinna (cinnabar button lichen) is a pale yellow to greenish or brownish bullate (bubble-like) to granular crustose lichen that prefers siliceous rock and cliff faces in temperate to subarctic, subalpine and alpine climates throughout the Northern Hemisphere.:229-30 In North America, it prefers higher altitudes such as in the Sierra Nevada range.:229-30 Lecideine apothecia are sessile on the thallus and are .2 - .8 mm in diameter with black discs. Lichen spot tests are C+ orange...

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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 462523.