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Overview
| Synopsis:
| Loosely appressed to imbricate, often forming planar sprays of lobes, less often suberect, upper surface dark brown, glossy, with no apparent reproductive structures; medulla K-, KC+ orange red, P+ orange red.
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| Distribution:
| Seward Peninsula in Alaska and Chukotsky Peninula in Russia; as yet unknown from outside the Bering region.
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| Habitat:
| arctic tundra
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| Range:
| Arctic, Subarctic, Alpine
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| Other Diagnostics: | Dark brown glossy with horizontal growth form and P+ and no apparent reproductive structures
| | Substrate Notes: | On mosses or detritus, or rock, rarely on bark or wood.
| | Abundance in North America: | Rare
| | Substrate: | Rarely
| | Host: | N.A.
| | On Rock: | Occasional
| | On Moss/Detritus/Sod: | Typically
| | Authority: | Krog
| | References: | McCune (2008)
| | Synonymy: | None
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