Solorina saccata

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| image = Solorina saccata 280208a.jpg

| image_caption = Solorina saccata, Schwäbisch Alb, Germany

| taxon = Solorina saccata

| authority = (L.) Ach. (1808)

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• Arthonia saccata (L.) Ach. 1806
• Platysma saccatum (L.) Frege 1812
• Peltigera saccata (L.) DC. 1805
• Peltidea saccata (L.) Ach. 1803
• Lobaria saccata (L.) Hoffm. 1796
• Lichen saccatus L. 1755

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Solorina saccata, commonly called chocolate chip lichen, is a lichen growing on calcareous rocks, usually in crevices and always in sheltered conditions. It is found from the mediterranean mountains up to the arctic. It differs from other alpine Solorina-species by the four two-cell spores in the asci.J. Poelt

Bestimmungsschlüssel europäischer Flechten. J. Cramer Publ., Vaduz 1974