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Psora nipponica ("butterfly scale") on a mossy rock in the mountains of southern Colorado. The growth form of this lichen, with its overlapping small lobes, is called "squamulose." The dark lumps are the fruiting bodies of the lichen fungus.

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Photograph copyright Stephen/Sylvia Sharnoff