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Caloplaca ignea, the "flame lichen" (orange) with a species of yellow Acarospora ("cobblestone lichen" or "cracked lichen") or Pleopsidium on "tombstone slate" in the Sierra foothills, California.

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Photograph copyright Stephen/Sylvia Sharnoff