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General
  substrate
   bark
   bryophytes
   soil
   non-calciferous rock
   calciferous rock
   rock (unspecified)
Thallus
  thallus type
   crustose-episubstratal (verrucose, subsquamulose)
   squamulose
   foliose
  thallus surface colour
   reddish brown
   black
   yellowish red
   brownish green
   brownish red
   brown
   reddish white
   red
   brownish grey
   grey
   whitish grey
  thallus surface colour
   grey
   white
   black
   red
   brown
   green
Ascomata
  ascomata kind
   apothecioid
   perithecioid
  ascomata hymenium paraphyses(-oids)
   absent
   present
Asci
  ascus type
   verrucarial
   prototunicate
   lecanoral
  asci wall
   thickened
   not thickened
Ascospores
  ascospores shape
   fusiform (spindle-shaped)
   fusiform-elongate (fusiform-ellipsoid)
  ascospores septation
   absent
   present
  ascospores wall pigmentation
   hyaline
   medium brownish
Misc
  secondary metabolites
   absent
   present
  primary photobiont kind
   cyanobacterioid
   chlorococcoid

White Sands National Monument

James P. Bennett and Clifford M. Wetmore
Species Count: 4

Lichinaceae

Physciaceae

Psoraceae

Verrucariaceae