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Caloplaca luteominea

Caloplaca luteominia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Subclass: Lecanoromycetidae
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Caloplaca
Species: C. luteominia
Binomial name
Caloplaca luteominia
(Tuck.) Zahlbr.

Caloplaca luteominia subspecies bolanderi (ruby firedot) is an endolithic lichen (a crustose lichen that grows inside rock, between the grains, with only the ruby red fruiting bodies exposed to the air. It is in the Teloschistaceae family.


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