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Heteroplacidium acarosporoides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Verrucariales
Family:	Verrucariaceae
Genus:	Heteroplacidium
Species:	H. acarosporoides
Binomial name
Heteroplacidium acarosporoides (Zahlbr.) Breuss 1996
Synonyms
Dermatocarpon acarosporoides Zahlbr. 1902 - basionym Catapyrenium acarosporoides (Zahlbr.) J.W.Thomson 1987 - obligate synonym Placidium acarosporoides (Zahlbr.) Breuss 2000 - obligate synonym

Heteroplacidium acarosporoides (Mojave stipplescale) is a glossy reddish to dark brown or black squamulose lichen dotted with black perithecia that grows on rock.

References

1. Breuss, O. 1996. Ein verfeinertes Gliederungskonzept für Catapyrenium (lichenisierte Ascomyceten, Verrucariaceae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien. 98(Suppl.):35-50
2. "Heteroplacidium acarosporoides". MycoBank. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
3. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
4. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001

• Verrucariales
• Lichen species
• Lichens described in 1902
• Taxa named by Alexander Zahlbruckner