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  substrate
   rock (unspecified)
   wood
   bark
   non-calciferous rock
   calciferous rock
   bryophytes
   soil
Thallus
  thallus type
   placodioid
   umbilicate (peltate)
   crustose-episubstratal (verrucose, subsquamulose)
   foliose
  thallus surface colour
   greenish brown
   yellowish brown
   yellow
   reddish brown
   yellowish white
   brownish green
   brown
   greyish brown
   greenish white
   white
   brownish grey
   whitish grey
   greenish grey
   grey
   black
  thallus surface colour
   white
   yellow
   green
   brown
   grey
Asci
  asci wall apex inner layers tholus amyloidity pattern
   with amyloid cap
   amyloid and with narrow, axial body convergent towards apex (Bacidia-type)
   entirely amyloid
   amyloid and with wide, axial body divergent towards apex (Lecanora-type)
Ascospores
  ascospores septation
   absent
   present
Misc
  secondary metabolites
   present
   absent
  primary photobiont kind
   cyanobacterioid
   chlorococcoid

Great Sand Dunes National Monument

James P. Bennett and Clifford M. Wetmore
Species Count: 10

Caliciaceae

Lecanoraceae

Parmeliaceae

Peltulaceae

Pertusariaceae

Physciaceae