Family: Ramalinaceae
[ Biatora squalida (Ach.) Hepp , more, Bilimbia cinereovirens (Schaer.) Jatta, Bilimbia squalida (Ach.) Jatta, Lecidea atrorufa var. squarrosa Ach., Lecidea cinereovirens Schaer., Lecidea squalida Ach., Patellaria squalida (Ach.) Duby, Psora cinereovirens (Schaer.) Duby, Psora squalida (Ach.) Acloque, Scolecites squalida (Ach.) Stizenb., Toninia havaasii H. Magn., Toninia havaasii f. havaasii H. Magn., Toninia havaasii f. tatrensis H. Magn. ex Tobol., Toninia havaasii subsp. aggregata (Vezda) Hild. Baumgärtner, Toninia havaasii subsp. havaasii H. Magn., Toninia squarrosa (Ach.) Th. Fr.] |
Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2002. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1. Life habit: lichenized, lichenicolous or not Thallus: squamulose squamules: up to 3 mm diam., adjacent or forming a continuous crust, irregularly lobed, weakly concave to weakly convex upper surface: medium brown to dark brown, epruinose, dull, often with shallow, irregular fissures, lacking pores and pseudocyphellae upper cortex: up to 100 µm high, lacking calcium oxalate margin: concolorous with upper surface Apothecia: up to 1.5 mm diam., plane and marginate when young, later convex and immarginate, epruinose; exciple: dark brown to dark green in the rim, pale brown to colorless in inner part; hypothecium: pale brown to colorless; epithecium: bright to dark green (K-, N+ violet) asci: clavate, 8-spored ascospores: acicular, 3-7-septate, 23-41.5 x 2.5-4.5 µm Pycnidia: laminal, immersed conidia: filiform Spot tests: all negative Secondary metabolites: none detected. Host: cyanolichens Substrate and ecology: on soil and rock in confer woodlands and forests, at 2150-2950 m World distribution: widely distributed in the temperate and arctic regions of Northern Hemisphere Sonoran distribution: rare in Arizona and Chihuahua. |