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Alectoria ochroleuca

  • 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 ochroleuca
    • Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Alectoria ochroleuca
    • Toolik Permanent Plots: Alectoria ochroleuca
    • Imnavait Creek Permanent Plots: Alectoria ochroleuca

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

  1. Alectoria ochroleuca    , witches hair lichen
  2. Site with lush growth.
    Vaagaa, Norway, 8/23/02
    Image author: Einar Timdal ©
    Website: Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
    Source of original image

  1. Alectoria ochroleuca    , witches hair lichen
  2. 8/23/02 Vaagaa Norway
    Image author: Einar Timdal ©
    Website: Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
    Source of original image

  1. Alectoria ochroleuca    , witches hair lichen
  2. Close-up.
    On alpine meadows. Thallus+- erect (A. sarmentosa is decumbent), up to 10 cm, yellowish-greenish (A. nigricans is darker); pseudocyphellae present. Cortex KC+ yellow (A. nigricans is KC+ red, A. sarmentosa KC- or KC+ red). Iceland.
    Image author: Ulrich Kirschbaum ©
    Website: Lichen images
    Source of original image

  1. Alectoria ochroleuca    , witches hair lichen
  2. On alpine heath
    8/20/06 Sweden
    Image author: Leif & Anita Stridvall ©
    Website: Plant Gallery
    Source of original image

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