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Overview
Synopsis:
| Erect, dactylina-like black-mottled lobes with isotomic dichotomous branching, sparsely perforate, lobe cavity with white or dark ceilings and dark floors, on tundra sod or rocks
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Distribution:
| Alaska (Aleutian Islands and islands in the Bering Sea) and Russia. The sole record from Russia, Mattson 3114 (Figs. 5-6), is uncertain. Aleutian Islands: St Paul Island, Nunivak Island (Nash Harbor) (Krog 1968); Port Clarence (Bering Strait) on the Harriman Expedition (Cummings 1904).
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Habitat:
| oceanic tundra
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Range:
| Arctic, Subarctic, Alpine
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Other Diagnostics: | Erect, Dactylina-like growth form
| Substrate Notes: | Oceanic tundra, on mosses or detritus, or rock.
| Abundance in North America: | Rare
| Substrate: | Never
| Host: | N.A.
| On Rock: | Typically
| On Moss/Detritus/Sod: | Occasional
| Authority: | Krog
| References: | McCune (2008)
| Synonymy: | Hypogymnia lugubris subsp. beringiana
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Habit
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