Species: Stereocaulon sterile
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Classification
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Ascomycetes
Order
Lecanorales
Family
Stereocaulaceae
Genus
Stereocaulon
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Fungi/Lichens - Lichens
Formal Taxonomy
Fungi - Ascomycota - Ascomycetes - Lecanorales - Stereocaulaceae - Stereocaulon - Stable since 1973. See I.M. Lamb, 1973. Stereocaulon sterile and Stereocaulon groenlandicum, two more hitherto overlood lichen species. Farlow Herbarium, Harvard Univ. Bot. 5:10.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Thallus with stalks forming dense cushions to about 3 cm tall that are white, cream, or gray; stalks slightly to moderately branched, glabrous or minutely tomentose in part, bearing projections (phyllocladia); phyllocladia tiny, granular to coralloid, fragile; cephalodia external, conspicuous or not, irregularly globose; apothecia usually lacking, terminal (McCune and Geiser 1997).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4?
Global Status Last Reviewed
1999-06-14
Global Status Last Changed
1999-06-14
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
From Alaska to California (McCune and Geiser 1997).