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Umbilicaria deusta

Overview
PNW Range:
  West sideOccasional
  East sideOccasional
  Immediate coastUncommon
  Alpine or subalpineOccasional
Habitat: Damp rocks in humid areas at low to middle elevations.
Substrate: Rock (noncalcareous).
Comments:
Synonymy: none
Umbilicaria deusta - Lower
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Umbilicaria deusta - Isidia
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Scale: Bar=1mm unless noted
Growth Form
Fruticose: Never
Foliose: Almost always
Crustose: Never
Appressed Foliose: Commonly
Fluffy Foliose or Strappy: Sometimes
Dangling Hair: Never
Erect Hair: Never
Appressed Hair: Never
Stalks With Squamules: Never
Stalks: Never
Squamules: Never
Single Holdfast: Commonly
Dangling Nets: Never
Lobe Width (mm): 10 (± 5)

Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Black: Sometimes
   Brown: Almost always
Upper Surface Tomentose: Never
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid: Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges: Never
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae: Never
   Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity: Never
Cilia on Margins: Never
Lower Surface (Foliose)
Lower Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Black: Commonly
   Brown: Almost always
Veined Below: Never
Rhizinate Below: Never
Tomentose Below: Never
Cyphellae: Never
Pseudocyphellae Below: Never
Papillae Below: Never

Interior
Inside (Medulla) Yellow or Orange: Never
Central Cord: Never
Hollow Stalks or Hollow Lobes: Never
Gelatinous: Never

Photobiont
Green Algae Primary Photobiont: Almost always
Cyanobacteria Primary Photobiont: Never
Internal Cephalodia: Never
External Cephalodia: Never

Chemistry
Medulla C+ Orange, Red, or Pink: Almost always
Medulla KC+ Orange, Red, or Pink: Almost always
Medulla UV+ Blue White: Rarely
Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia: Never
Apothecia: Rarely
   Mazaedium: Never
Disk Color    (Dry) 
   Disk Black: Almost always

Asexual Reproduction
Isidia: Almost always
Soredia: Never
Lobules: Sometimes