Locality:
United States, Arizona, Yavapai, Woods Canyon, Red Rock Ranger District, Coconino National Forest; 34.756003 -111.749498
34.756003 -111.749498
Elevation:
1185 meters (3887ft)
Habitat:
on top of sandstone boulder, totally exposed to sun and weather, within an Upper Sonoran Desert Scrub
Substrate:
rock
Associated Species:
Acarospora scabrida
Description:
Thallus areolate; areoles round to irregular, discrete to continuous; rim down-turned; upper surface brown with some bluish-gray, plane to convex, smooth; apothecia punctiform to round, angular, one or more per areole, sometimes apothecia filling the whole areole; disc black, plane to concave, lightly pruinose; asci 100+ spore; ascospores hyaline, simple, broadly ellipsoid