Koerberia sonomensis, the Sonoma koerberia lichen, is a dark olive-green foliose lichen found in western North America mountains,[2]: 8 Mediterranean areas of Europe, northern Africa and in the Sonoran Desert.[3] The body (thallus) is a small .5 to 1 centimetre (0.20 to 0.39 in) rosette of leafy structures with elongate lobes to 2 millimetres (0.079 in). The upper surface is dark olive-green sometimes striped, and the lower surface is pale olive-green. The fruiting forms (apothecia) are flat to slightly convex, and deep red-brown. It is in the Koerberia genus in the Placynthiaceae family.
| Koerberia sonomensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Koerberiaceae |
| Genus: | Koerberia |
| Species: | K. sonomensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Koerberia sonomensis | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Vestergrenopsis sonomensis (Tuck.) T. Sprib. & Muggia | |
References
edit- ^ "Vestergrenopsis sonomensis (Tuck.) T. Sprib. & Muggia". Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
- ^ Lichens in relation to management issues in the Sierra Nevada national parks, McCune, B., J. Grenon, and E. Martin, L. Mutch, Sierra Nevada Network, Cooperative agreement CA9088A0008. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, California, [1]
- ^ Encyclopedia of Life (source - Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region - Arizona State University Lichen Herbarium: Greater Sonoran Desert Lichen Flora), Koerberia sonomensis, [2]
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