Key

Taxon:
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General
  substrate
   bryophytes
   soil
   non-calciferous rock
   calciferous rock
   rock (unspecified)
   bark
Ascomata
  ascomata kind*
   perithecioid
   apothecioid
  interascal hyphae (hamathecium)*
   absent
   present
Asci
  ascus wall thickening
   not thickened
   thickened
  ascus dehiscence type
   prototunicate
   lecanoralean
   verrucarioid
Ascospores
  ascospores shape*
   fusiform (spindle-shaped)
   fusiform-elongate (fusiform-ellipsoid)
  ascospores septation
   absent
   present
  ascospores wall pigmentation*
   hyaline
   medium brownish
Secondary Metabolites [general]
  secondary metabolite presence
   present
   absent
Photobionts
  primary photobiont kind
   chlorococcoid
   cyanobacterioid
Upper Thallus Surface
  upper surface color - overall*
   bright white (atranorin white; vermicularis-white)
   reddish white
   brownish grey
   brownish green
   reddish brown
   green
   brown
   whitish grey
   yellowish red
   brownish red
   red
   black
   grey

White Sands National Monument

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

Lichinaceae

Physciaceae

Psoraceae

Verrucariaceae