Lasallia papulosa

Lasallia papulosa (common toadskin) is an umbilicate lichen (a lichen attached to its substrate at a single point).[1] It is in the family Umbilicariaceae.

Lasallia papulosa
photograph of a Lasallia papulosa herbarium specimen showing the lower surface with depressions. Growing on a boulder near cliffs at, Dolly Sods Wilderness, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia. (scale marks = millimeters)
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L. papulosa
Binomial name
Lasallia papulosa
(Ach.) Llano (1950)
Synonyms
  • Gyrophora papulosa Ach. (1810)

References

  1. Lichen Vocabulary, LICHENS OF NORTH AMERICA, Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff, Archived 2015-01-20 at the Wayback Machine


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