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Tephromela
Tephromela is a genus of lichens in the family Tephromelataceae. There are about 50 species in this widespread genus. The genus was established in 1929 by the French lichenologist Maurice Choisy, who separated these species from the broader genus Lecanora based on their distinctive straight asexual spores and dark violet spore-bearing layers. These rock and bark-dwelling lichens are characterized by their white to pale grey crusty growth and black disc-shaped reproductive structures with purple-tinted interiors.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Black-eye Lichen
speciesTephromela atra
Tephromela pacifica
speciesTephromela pacifica
Tephromela grumosa
speciesTephromela grumosa
Tephromela nashii
speciesTephromela nashii
Tephromela alectoronica
speciesTephromela alectoronica
Tephromela brisbanensis
speciesTephromela brisbanensis
Tephromela promontorii
speciesTephromela promontorii
Tephromela austrolitoralis
speciesTephromela austrolitoralis
Tephromela campestricola
speciesTephromela campestricola
Tephromela americana
speciesTephromela americana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 174833.