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Porpidia

  • Family name: Porpidiaceae
  • Common name: porpidia lichen
  • Growth form: Lichen
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map: Porpidia

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  1. Porpidia    , porpidia lichen
  2. Porpidia flavocaerulescens, example species ('orange boulder lichen') on rock. The black discs are fruiting bodies of the lichen fungus. Dark lines form where two individual lichens meet.
    along the Denali Highway, AK, USA.
    Image author: Stephen & Sylvia Sharnoff ©
    Website: Lichens of North America
    Source of original image

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