Species: Umbilicaria angulata
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Classification
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Ascomycetes
Order
Lecanorales
Family
Umbilicariaceae
Genus
Umbilicaria
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
Starred Rocktripe Lichen - navel lichen
Informal Taxonomy
Fungi/Lichens - Lichens
Formal Taxonomy
Fungi - Ascomycota - Ascomycetes - Lecanorales - Umbilicariaceae - Umbilicaria
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Thallus to 9 cm, monophyllus, thick, rigid, round to irregular often divided into overlapping lobes, the umbo puckered in between creases and folds; upper side smooth to obscurely wrinkled and cracks with occasional coarse black cracks, dull or subshiny, dark brown or blotched with grayish olive, with thin pruinosity toward the margins; underside black or dark brown, usually covered with a tangled mat of coarse cylindrical or flattened granulose rhizinae, the lower cortex black and coarsely papillate-verrucose. Apothecia common, adnate or partly immersed more or less angular; disk black with a few gyri, margin thick, the gyri sometimes becoming beaded, the surface dull or shiny (Thomson 1984).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4?
Global Status Last Reviewed
2011-02-14
Global Status Last Changed
2011-02-14
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Endemic to western North America from southern California to Alaska, reaching into the Arctic only on Great Sitkin Island in the Aleutian Islands (Thomson 1984). East to Alberta and western Montana (McCune and Goward 1995).

