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False Russell's fishscale lichen
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False Russell's fishscale lichen

Psora pseudorussellii

Psora pseudorussellii, the bordered scale, is a species of rock-dwelling squamulose lichen in the family Psoraceae. It forms patches of small, brown, scale-like structures with distinctive white margins on limestone and other calcareous rocks in eastern and southern North America, from southeastern Canada south into Mexico. The species was described in 1986 to separate it from similar material that had been confused with Psora russellii, and DNA studies have confirmed that it is restricted to North...

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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 229256.