Bellemerea alpina
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| Bellemerea alpina in Salmon-Challis National Forest | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecideales |
| Family: | Lecideaceae |
| Genus: | Bellemerea |
| Species: | B. alpina
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Bellemerea alpina, the brown sunken disk lichen, is a white to pale tan, thick crustose areolate lichen that grows on rock in the mountains worldwide.[2] It grows in arctic-alpine habitats in Eurasia, North America (south to California and Arizona), Australia, and New Zealand.[2][3]: 228 Areoles are sometimes contiguous and sometimes dispersed.[3]: 228 It often has very visible black prothallus.[3]: 228 The brown to tan apothecia have a purplish tinge and are grayed by a pruinose coating, and embedded in the areoles, giving a similar appearance to members of the genus Aspicilia.[3]: 228 [2]
References
- ^ NatureServe. "Bellemerea alpina". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ^ a b c Bellemerea alpina, Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]
- ^ a b c d Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2