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[Aspidothelium cinerascens]

Auriculora byssomorpha (Nyl.) Kalb
Venezuela, El Avila, 2400 m, leg. B. Manara 796 [B].
Growing on bark of small tree trunks in open, usually low forest. Characteristic are the small, brown "flaps" on the margin of the apothecia.
[picture height = 3.5 mm].
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