Acarospora is a genus of mostly lichen-forming fungi in the family Acarosporaceae. Most species in the genus are crustose lichens that grow on rocks in...

Acarospora thelococcoides is a pruinose (dusty whitish) verruculose (warty) crustose lichen that grows in patches up to 10 cm across that grows on soil...

Acarospora organensis is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), squamulose lichen. It was originally described in the late 1920s by Swedish naturalist...

Acarospora stapfiana, the hoary cobblestone lichen, is a lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) lichen species in the family Acarosporaceae. It is known for its...

Acarospora citrina is a lichen in the family, Acarosporaceae, first described as Urceolaria citrina by Thomas Taylor in 1847. It was assigned to the genus...

Acarospora schleicheri, the soil paint lichen, is a bleached to bright yellow areolate to squamulose lichen that commonly grows to 10 cm (4 in) on soil...

Acarospora contigua is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Acarosporaceae. It was formally described as a new species...

Acarospora strigata is an areolate to verruculous crustose lichen that grows on rock around the world, in full sun or shade, and in mesic to arid habitats...

Acarospora socialis (bright cobblestone lichen) is a usually bright yellow areolate to squamulose crustose lichen in the family Acarosporaceae that grows...

Acarospora flavisparsa is a species of lichen in the family Acarosporaceae. Found in Portugal and Spain, it was described as new to science in 2011. The...

Acarospora veronensis is a medium brown to dark brown or black crustose lichen that grows up to 4 cm (1.6 in) wide.: 221  It is extremely variable in its...

Acarospora elevata, the mountain cobblestone lichen, is a shiny dark reddish brown to dark brown verrucose to aereolate crustose lichen that grows up to...

Acarospora oligyrophorica is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Acarosporaceae. Described as new to science in 2002...

Acarospora thamnina is a shiny, black tinged, variously brown squamulose crustose lichen. It has a linear growth pattern, growing along cracks in boulders...

Acarospora dissecta is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Acarosporaceae. It grows on volcanic rock in high-altitude...

Acarospora toensbergii is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Acarosporaceae. Known only from the Kenai Fjords National...

Acarospora fuscata ("brown cobblestone lichen") is a glossy pale or yellowish-brown areolate lichen with angular areolas that grows up to 10 cm (4 in)...

Acarospora bullata, commonly known as cracked lichen, is a species of lichen in the Acarosporaceae family. The British Lichen Society wrote in 2010 that...

Acarospora obnubila ("cloudy cobblestone lichen") is a dull brown squamulose areolate crustose lichen that may grow up to 4 mm in diameter or with squamules...

Acarospora pseudofuscata is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Acarosporaceae. It occurs on a few islands in the Aegean...

Acarospora janae is a species of lichen in the Acarosporaceae family. Described as new to science in 2011, it is known only from New Mexico and Colorado...

made by Eduard Frey in Austria. It was initially classified in the genus Acarospora. Josef Hafellner circumscribed Timdalia to contain the species in 2001...

Acarospora americana is a dark brown to black verruculose to areolate or squamulose crustose lichen with deeply immersed reddish to blackish-brown apothecia...

on the thalli and apothecia (fruiting bodies) crustose lichen species Acarospora cervina, which was itself growing on sun-exposed limestone rock. The species...

and C. immersum. Caeruleum is generally similar to the related genus Acarospora. The generic name, "Caeruleum", refers to the blue color stain of the...

Glacier joins the Scott Glacier. The tip of the massif holds Mount Czegka, Acarospora Peak and Dunn Spur. To the north are Mount Russell, Mount Blackburn and...

ecological niche. Lichen species identified in recent research: Acarospora spp. Acarospora gwynnii Buellia spp. Buellia frigida Buellia grisea Buellia pallida...

grows on top of the rock without penetrating the rock substrate. E.g. Acarospora fuscata Epiphloeodal – grows only on the surface of plants. E.g. Lecania...

1933 Acarospora bella Jatta 1906 Acarospora bylii H. Magn. 1933 Acarospora calviniensis H. Magn. 1933 Acarospora capensis Zahlbr. 1926 Acarospora cervina...

its photosynthetic activity, and producing new growth. It is similar to Acarospora schleicheri, which grows on soil (terricolous lichen) and rarely on rock...