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Overview
| Synopsis:
| Rosettiform, solarizing to brown, with terminal and laminal soralia; similar to H. austerodes but with soralia on short, narrow upturned lateral lobes and often with small perforations in the lobe tips; medulla K+ slow red brown or K-, KC+ orange, P-.
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| Distribution:
| H: Scandinavia, Europe s to Italy, Russian far east (Habarovsk Region, Badzhal Mts), China, Siberia (L. Baikal), Mongolia, Caucasus (Vezda 1746); Ukraine (Kondratyuk et al. 1996); Xizang (Tibet) (Wei & Jiang (1986)
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| Habitat:
| arctic alpine to boreal
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| Range:
| Southern Rocky Mountains, Arctic, Subarctic, Alpine, Northern Rocky Mountains
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| Other Diagnostics: | Note sparse minute holes in lobe tips. Apo char's based on McCune 32897 from Alaska. Spores (5.0)6.6 - 7.0(7.6) x (3.3)3.6 - 4.0(4.2).
| | Substrate Notes: | Usually on conifers, especially Picea, Abies, Pseudotsuga; occasional on hardwoods (e.g. Betula); occasional on tundra sod or moss over rock
| | Abundance in North America: | Locally common
| | Substrate: | Typically
| | Host: | Conifers
| | On Rock: | Rarely
| | On Moss/Detritus/Sod: | Rarely
| | Authority: | (Lynge) Ahti
| | References: | Chemistry in Zeybek et al. (1993), Hansen & McCune (2010) , Westberg et al. (2011)
| | Synonymy: | Hypogymnia protea, Hypogymnia salsa?, Hypogymnia verruculosa?
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Habit
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Vegetative Structures
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Perforate lobe tips
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Reproductive Structures
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Hymenium, polarized light
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