1. The surface is also finely fibrillose with tiny scales ( squamules ). 2. Lobes are sometimes short and like squamules . 3. When it forms thick clumps it is easily identified with its elevated squamules and thick stipes. 4. Irregular 0.3-1.5 mm in diameter squamules sometimes grow as lobes. 5. Apothecia variably grow from large and obvious lecanorine discs, to being immersed in the squamule . 6. They are umbillicate with flat to erect squamule lobes that attach from a central holdfast or cluster of rhizenes. 7. Competition for space with other lichens stimulates longer stipes to develop, whereby the squamules may overlay other lichens. 8. The squamules are peltate ( like shields attached from the lower surface ), up to 8 mm in diameter. 9. Each squamule has 0 or one 1 mm round to angular apothecia immersed in it, outside desert habitats, but may have 2 to 10 per in deserts. 10. The " Cladonia " morpho-type has many more species, and is generally described as a group of squamulose ( grow from squamules ), cup-bearing lichens.
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