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Family:
Ochrolechiaceae
[Lecanora tartarea (L.) Ach., more, Lecanora tartarea f. microcarpa Th. Fr., Lecanora tartarea f. tartarea (L.) Ach., Lecanora tartarea subsp. tartarea (L.) Ach., Lecanora tartarea var. arborea (DC.) Schaer., Lecanora tartarea var. frigida (Sw.) Ach., Lecanora tartarea var. gonatodes (Ach.) Ach., Lecanora tartarea var. grandinosa Ach., Lecanora tartarea var. pterulina Nyl., Lecanora tartarea var. tartarea (L.) Ach., Lichen tartareus L., Ochrolechia erichsenii Hafellner & Türk, Ochrolechia tartarea var. pycnidiifera Verseghy, Patellaria tartarea (L.) DC., Pertusaria gyrocheila Nyl., Pertusaria tumidula Erichsen, Pertusaria tumidula var. perpityrea Erichsen, Pertusaria tumidula var. tumidula Erichsen, Rinodina tartarea (L.) Gray, Verrucaria tartarea (L.) F.H. Wigg.]
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Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse [th] upper surface: grey(ish) | white(ish) [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: verrucose, warted ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial ascoma [mm]: (median) 2.0 ascoma: sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: grey(ish) | white(ish) [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: absent | present [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: hyaline, colourless [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless asci: lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) [asp] shape: ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (low) 35.0 (high) 70.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 20.0 (high) 40.0 [asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: gyrophoric acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate: rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified.
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