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General
  substrate
   bark
   non-calciferous rock
   wood
   soil
   calciferous rock
   rock (unspecified)
Thallus Growth Morphology
  crustose growth forms
   continuous
   areolate (flattened areoles)
   lobate (incl. effigurate, rosulate, placodioid, subcrustose)
Ascomata
  ascomata*
   present
   absent
  ascomata kind*
   perithecioid
   apothecioid
  hymenium paraphyses(-oids)*
   absent
   present
Asci
  ascus wall thickening
   not thickened
   thickened
  ascus dehiscence type
   prototunicate
   lecanoralean
   verrucarioid
Ascospores
  ascospores shape*
   ovoid
   subglobose
   fusiform (spindle-shaped)
   broadly ellipsoid
   ellipsoid
   globose
  ascospores septation
   absent
   present
Secondary Metabolites [general]
  secondary metabolite presence
   absent
   present
Conidiomata
  conidiomata*
   absent
   present
Upper Thallus Surface
  upper surface color - overall*
   greyish yellow
   yellowish red
   yellowish brown
   red
   lime yellow (bright greenish yellow; geographicum-green)
   blackish grey
   brown
   brownish grey
   greenish brown
   reddish yellow
   greenish yellow
   orange
   yellow
   black
   green
   greenish grey
   brownish green
   greyish green
   grey

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

James P. Bennett and Clifford M. Wetmore
Species Count: 14

Lecanoraceae

Lichinaceae

Mycosphaerellaceae

Parmeliaceae

Peltulaceae

Teloschistaceae

Verrucariaceae