Umbilicaria phaea from Dye Creek Preserve

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Congrats on your first species intro! A much welcome one, as our collection of lichen still is rather small:
https://www.jungledragon.com/wildlife/browse/fungi/ascomycota/lecanoromycetes

One small suggestion to improve the sharing of your photos: please set a meaningful title, and optionally a description. It looks better in the photo, in thumbs, and there's a better chance people will find your photo if it has a good title. You can simply do this using the yellow "Edit details" button. Hope this helps. Posted 7 years ago

kueda

Bullet Ant

Many thanks, I was mostly just kicking the tires here. I work at iNaturalist so I'm always curious how other people have solved the same problems. You've built a pretty great system! Especially interested in the reputation system, since we've never broached that. Were the quotas intended to keep spammers at bay, and/or control your rate of growth? What about them motivates people to achieve them? I was personally pretty motivated to earn the ability to add IDs to unidentified stuff. Posted 7 years ago
1. WildFlower
  
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  You should use the reply field to address another user so that he gets a notification. I don't think Ferdy has seen your comment. You can also send him a direct message from his profile. Posted 7 years ago

betsuin

Eagle Owl

Wonderful - luv lichen image! Posted 7 years ago

The Umbilicaria phaea

''Umbilicaria phaea'' is a brown, umblicate foliose lichen that grows up to 6 cm in diameter, sometimes in colonies covering large patches of desert rocks. One variety that grows in northern California is brilliant red. It is with a single 1 - 5 cm flattish leaf-like cap on top of an anchoring stem. The leaflike top is smooth with some lobes, roughly circular, thin, and brittle.
The lower surface is light gray to light brown. It has up to 2.5 mm black circular to slightly polygonal spots that.. more

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Similar species: Lecanorales

Species identified by kueda