Caloplaca cerina

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Caloplaca cerina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Caloplaca
Species:
C. cerina
Binomial name
Caloplaca cerina
Ehrh. ex Hedwig

Caloplaca cerina, also known as the gray-rimmed firedot lichen, is a species of lichen. It is part of the monophyletic Caloplaca cerina species group and is the type species of the genus Caloplaca . [1]

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Description

Caloplaca cerina has a crustose thallus, typically dark grey to white. [1] It has a thalline margin , although this is sometimes thin and difficult to note. [2] However its appearance can be very variable; as a result, many specimens that have been identified as Caloplaca cerina are actually other species. One study that examined 3,000 specimens of Caloplaca cerina found that roughly 1,000 were other species. [2]

Distribution

It is very common on tree bark, particularly on poplar and elm trees. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Šoun, Jaroslav; Vondrák, Jan; Søchting, Ulrik; Hrouzek, Pavel; Khodosovtsev, Alexander; Arup, Ulf (March 2011). "Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Caloplaca cerina group in Europe" . The Lichenologist. 43 (2): 113–135. doi:10.1017/S0024282910000721. ISSN   0024-2829.
  2. 1 2 Wetmore, Clifford M. (December 2007). "Notes on Caloplaca cerina (Teloschistaceae) in North and Central America" . The Bryologist. 110 (4): 798–807. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2007)110[798:NOCCTI]2.0.CO;2. ISSN   0007-2745.
  3. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen; Nature, Canadian Museum of (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 197. ISBN   978-0-300-08249-4.