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Neofuscelia loxodes

Overview
PNW Range:
  West sideOccasional
  East sideUncommon
  Immediate coastOccasional
  Alpine or subalpineNone
Habitat: Fairly common in exposed dry sites, especially on basalt on the Columbia Plateau and Snake River Plains, sporadically into western Montana.
Substrate: Rock or mosses over rock, very rarely on wood or bark.
Comments:
Synonymy: Xanthoparmelia loxodes
Neofuscelia loxodes - Lobe tips
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Neofuscelia loxodes - Soredia
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Scale: Bar=1mm unless noted
Growth Form
Fruticose: Never
Foliose: Almost always
Crustose: Never
Appressed Foliose: Almost always
Fluffy Foliose or Strappy: Never
Dangling Hair: Never
Erect Hair: Never
Appressed Hair: Never
Stalks With Squamules: Never
Stalks: Never
Squamules: Never
Single Holdfast: Never
Dangling Nets: Never
Lobe Width (mm): 2 (± 1)

Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Brown: Almost always
   Tan: Sometimes
Upper Surface Tomentose: Never
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid: Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges: Never
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae: Sometimes
   Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity: Never
Cilia on Margins: Never
Lower Surface (Foliose)
Lower Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Black: Almost always
   Brown: Commonly
Veined Below: Never
Rhizinate Below: Almost always
   Rhizines Squarrose: Never
Tomentose Below: Never
Cyphellae: Never
Pseudocyphellae Below: Never
Papillae Below: Never

Interior
Inside (Medulla) Yellow or Orange: Never
Central Cord: Never
Hollow Stalks or Hollow Lobes: Never
Gelatinous: Never

Photobiont
Green Algae Primary Photobiont: Almost always
Cyanobacteria Primary Photobiont: Never
Internal Cephalodia: Never
External Cephalodia: Never

Chemistry
Medulla C+ Orange, Red, or Pink: Sometimes
Medulla KC+ Orange, Red, or Pink: Sometimes
Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia: Never
Apothecia: Rarely
   Mazaedium: Never
Disk Color    (Dry) 
   Disk Brown or Tan: Almost always

Asexual Reproduction
Isidia: Commonly
Soredia: Commonly
Lobules: Never