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Punctelia rudecta (Ach.) Krog  
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Family: Parmeliaceae
[Imbricaria rudecta (Ach.) Jatta, moreParmelia rudecta Ach., Parmelia rudecta f. albida Zahlbr., Parmelia rudecta f. rudecta Ach., Parmelia rudecta var. cylindrica Räsänen, Parmelia rudecta var. granulosa Räsänen, Parmelia rudecta var. rudecta Ach.]
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Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2004. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 2.
Thallus: foliose, medium sized, to 8 cm; lobate lobes: plane, linear to subirregular, spreading, 4-7 mm upper surface: bluish gray to light mineral gray, shiny, sometimes cracked; margin: tinged with brown, rarely pruinose pseudocyphellae: white, common, irregular in shape, sometimes coalescing isidia: occasional to frequent, short, smooth and corticate, simple to forked or coralloid, brown-tipped, often arising from pseudocyphellae and cortical cracks, not breaking up into soredia-like masses, occasionally becoming extremely dense and "mounded" obscuring the thallus lobes lower surface: pale, white to flesh-colored or more brown; rhizines: simple to forked, concolorous with the lower surface or white Apothecia: very rare and immature in Sonoran material Pycnidia: not seen in Sonoran specimens Spot tests: upper cortex K+ yellow, C-, medulla K-, C+ red Secondary metabolites: upper cortex with atranorin (minor), medulla containing lecanoric acid (major). Substrate and ecology: on rocks (basalt, rhyolite, volcanic) and mosses, or bark (Quercus, Pachycormus, Pinus), 10-2260 m in the Sonoran region World Distribution: widespread, common in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia; (unknown in Antarctica) Sonoran distribution: infrequent in Arizona and occasional in Baja California, Chihuahua, Durango and Sonora. Notes: This species is extremely common and widespread in eastern and southeastern North America (Brodo et al. 2001).
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