''Diploschistes scruposus'' (crater lichen) is a pale gray to white, warty to cracked (
areolate)
crustose lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.[urceolate
This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary o ...]
) fruiting bodies (
apothecia). It is found worldwide on growing on rock (
saxicolous) that is
siliceous, in open areas in
Mediterranean,
temperate and
polar
Polar may refer to:
Geography
Polar may refer to:
* Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates
* Polar climate, the c ...
areas, from the low tropics to high altitudes.
[Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ][Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001] It is in the
Thelotremataceae
The Thelotremataceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Ostropales.
Genera
*''Acanthotrema''
*''Chapsa''
*''Chroodiscus''
*'' Diploschistes''
*'' Fibrillithecis''
*'' Gyrotrema''
*'' Ingvariella''
*'' Leptotrema''
*'' Leucodecton''
* ...
family. In
California, it is the most common member of the ''
Diploschistes
''Diploschistes'' (crater lichen) is a genus of crustose lichens with a thick, cracked (areolate) body (thallus) with worldwide distribution.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The fruiting part (ap ...
''
genus. It is not covered in a powdery white coating (
epruinose),
[ which distinguishes it from other members of the genus.][
]
References
Ostropales
Lichen species
Lichens described in 1771
Taxa named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
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