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Xanthopsorella texana
Xanthopsorella is a fungal genus in the family Catillariaceae. It comprises the single species Xanthopsorella texana, a saxicolous (rock-dwelling), squamulose lichen found in the Southern United States and Mexico.
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Description
Xanthopsorella texana has a squamulose thallus that ranges in color from raw sienna to yellowish to reddish. The thallus grows in the form of rosettes up to 3 or 4 cm (1.2 or 1.6 in) in diameter, and these comprise individual squamules up to 5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter on the thallus margins, and about 2–3 mm in the inner (laminal) areas of the thallus. The upper cortex has a pseudoparenchymatous tissue structure and is 30–50 μm thick. The apothecia (fruiting bodies) made by the lichen are black to purplish black and sessile with a somewhat constricted base. The ascospores, which number eight per ascus, are spherical and hyaline, measuring 3 to 4 μm in diameter.
Range & habitat
In additional to the type locality in Texas, Xanthopsorella texana has also been recorded in Mexico, including Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Chiapas. It grows on limestone.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Habitat and distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 174739.