Baeomyces carneus & Baeomyces rufus #

Taxon #

Baeomyces rufus

Organization #

Select Crustose Species

Identification #

Baeomyces rufus is a crustose species of lichen with small, pink to brown, stipitate apothecia growing from light green, leprose thalli. B.rufus is very similar morphologically to B. carneus. B. rufus, however, does not have the small lobes along the thallus margin that are observed in B. carneus.

Substrate #

Terricolous

Chemical Tests #

thallus: K+ yellow, C-, KC+ yellow, Pd+ yellow or Pd+ orange, UV- (CLH)

Notes #

Widespread in Alaska if not ubiquitous at least from the Brooks Range southward.

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