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Alectoria nigricans

  • Family name: Alectoriaceae
  • Common name: witches hair lichen
  • Growth form: Lichen
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map: Alectoria nigricans
    • Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Alectoria nigricans, Alectoria nigrescens
    • Toolik Permanent Plots: Alectoria nigricans
    • Imnavait Creek Permanent Plots: Alectoria nigricans

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  1. Alectoria nigricans    , witches hair lichen
  2. Image author: Hörður Kristinsson ©
    Website: Flora of Iceland
    Source of original image

  1. Alectoria nigricans    , witches hair lichen
  2. Close-up of thallus
    Sigdal 6/23/02
    Image author: Einar Timdal ©
    Website: Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
    Source of original image

  1. Alectoria nigricans    , witches hair lichen
  2. Close-up of thallus
    Sigdal, Norway, 6/22/98
    Image author: Einar Timdal ©
    Website: Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
    Source of original image

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