#Byssoloma leucoblepharum

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Byssoloma leucoblepharum

Your vision isn’t off, those margins around the apothecia are FUZZY! B. leucoblepharum is a crustose lichen with a thin gray-green or brown-green thallus. It has round, flat apothecia 0.3-0.5 mm in diameter. These apothecia have discs that start out pale orange, and darken to brown-black with age. These discs are surrounded in a margin of pale, cottony fungal hyphae. B. leucoblepharum can be found in temperate and tropical oceanic forests growing on the surface of bark or long-lasting leaves. 

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