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Fungi nonlichenized

Overview
PNW Range:
  West sideCommon
  East sideCommon
  Immediate coastCommon
  Alpine or subalpineCommon
Habitat: Widespread and common in all habitats, largely dependent on season.
Substrate: Wood, bark, soil, humus, forest floor, and any other organic substrates.
Comments:
Synonymy: none
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Scale: Bar=1mm unless noted
Growth Form
Fruticose: Sometimes
Foliose: Sometimes
Crustose: Sometimes
Appressed Foliose: Sometimes
Fluffy Foliose or Strappy: Never
Dangling Hair: Never
Erect Hair: Rarely
Appressed Hair: Never
Stalks With Squamules: Never
Stalks: Sometimes
Squamules: Never
Single Holdfast: Sometimes
Dangling Nets: Never
Lobe Width (mm): 10 (± 10)

Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Pale Yellow Green: Sometimes
   Orange: Sometimes
   Yellow: Sometimes
   Whitish: Sometimes
   Pale Gray: Sometimes
   Dark Gray: Sometimes
   Black: Sometimes
   Olive Black: Sometimes
   Olive Brown: Sometimes
   Brown: Sometimes
   Tan: Sometimes
Upper Surface Tomentose: Sometimes
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid: Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges: Rarely
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae: Never
   Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity: Never
Cilia on Margins: Sometimes
Lower Surface (Foliose)
Lower Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Orange: Sometimes
   Yellow: Sometimes
   Whitish: Sometimes
   Pale Gray: Sometimes
   Dark Gray: Sometimes
   Black: Sometimes
   Olive Black: Sometimes
   Olive Brown: Sometimes
   Brown: Sometimes
   Tan: Sometimes
Veined Below: Sometimes
Rhizinate Below: Sometimes
   Rhizines Squarrose: Never
Tomentose Below: Sometimes
Cyphellae: Never
Pseudocyphellae Below: Never
Papillae Below: Never

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

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

Chemistry
Cortex K+ Yellow: Rarely
Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia: Sometimes
Apothecia: Sometimes
   Mazaedium: Never
Disk Color    (Dry) 
   Disk Orange: Sometimes
   Disk Yellow: Sometimes
   Disk Red: Sometimes
   Disk Black: Sometimes
   Disk Brown or Tan: Sometimes

Asexual Reproduction
Isidia: Never
Soredia: Never
Lobules: Never
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