{{Short description|Species of lichen}} {{Speciesbox | image = Amandinea punctata (39093084775).jpg | status = G5 | status_system = TNC | status_ref = <ref name=NS>{{cite NatureServe |id=2.122534 |title=''Amandinea punctata'' |access-date=13 July 2025}}</ref> | taxon = Amandinea punctata | authority = (Hoffm.) Coppins & Scheid. (1993) | synonyms = *''Verrucaria punctata'' <small>Hoffm. (1796)</small> }}
'''''Amandinea punctata''''' ('''tiny button lichen''') is a crustose brown to gray lichen that grows on wood and rock around the world.<ref name=KJAPJTNP>Amandinea punctata in the Joshua Tree National Park (California, U.S.A.) Map collection: Kerry Knudsen, Kocourková Jana; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Ecology, Czech Republic; 2012</ref> It grows on, not in the wood (epiphytic).<ref name=KJAPJTNP/> It prefers bark that is acidic.<ref name=KJAPJTNP/> In California, it is among the most common crustose lichens occurring on trees.<ref name=KJAPJTNP/> Sometimes its thallus is absent, and branches may be covered in its lecideine apothecia.<ref name=KJAPJTNP/> Because of its tolerance of low humidity, it is one of the few epiphytic lichens growing on trees in California deserts, where it commonly grows on the old, dry wood of junipers, and sometimes fallen pinyon pines and oaks, or on their dead branches.<ref name=KJAPJTNP/> Compared to other lichens, it is tolerant of air pollutants and other toxins such as NO<sub>2</sub> and SO<sub>2</sub>.<ref name=KJAPJTNP/>
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punctata Category:Lichen species Category:Lichens described in 1796 Category:Lichens of Europe Category:Lichens of North America Category:Taxa named by Georg Franz Hoffmann
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