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Overview
Synopsis:
| Soft, puffy, whitish lobes nearly covered by very fine soredia; medulla KC+ orange red, P-.
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Distribution:
| San Luis Obispo County, California, south to at least 31oN in Baja California, including Channel Islands (Santa Catalina, Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa). Calif: San Luis Obispo Co, San Diego Co (Pike & Hale 1982)
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Habitat:
| coastal chaparral scrub
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Range:
| Central and Southern California
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Other Diagnostics: | Soredia very fine, generally 15-40 um in diameter.
| Substrate Notes: | On bark and wood, typically on shrubs (Salvia, Adenostoma) and conifers (Pinus)
| Abundance in North America: | Present
| Substrate: | Typically
| Host: | Shrubs, Pinus remorata
| On Rock: | Never
| On Moss/Detritus/Sod: | Never
| Authority: | L. H. Pike & Hale
| References: | Pike & Hale (1982), McCune (2002)
| Synonymy: | None
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