Family: Rhizocarpaceae
[ Biatora hochstetteri (Körb.) G. Merr. , more, Buellia colludens (Nyl.) Arnold, Buellia colludens var. colludens (Nyl.) Arnold, Buellia colludens var. triseptata M. Knowles ex Ch. Porter, Buellia hochstetteri (Körb.) Mong., Catillaria colludens (Nyl.) Jatta, Catillaria hochstetteri Körb., Catocarpus hochstetteri (Körb.) Oxner, Lecidea colludens Nyl., Lecidea hochstetteri (Körb.) Vain., Lecidea hochstetteri f. hochstetteri (Körb.) Vain., Lecidea hochstetteri f. incrassata Vain., Rhizocarpon colludens (Nyl.) Fryday, Rhizocarpon colludens var. colludens (Nyl.) Fryday, Rhizocarpon colludens var. rufoatrum , Rhizocarpon massalongoi f. colludens (Nyl.) Zahlbr.] |
Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) episubstratal unspecified thallus: cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized areolate, squamulate [th] upper surface: grey(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) [th upper surface]: epruinose [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.2 (high) 1.0 [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: smooth, plane [th] medulla amyloidity: absent ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid hymenial ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.6 (high) 1.0 (max) 1.2 ascoma: subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: absent [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | black(ish) brown [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (low) 2.5 (high) 3.0 [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: (min) 3.5 [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) black | yellow(ish) black asci: lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) ascospores: (median) 8.0 [asp] shape: broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (low) 21.0 (high) 25.0 (max) 28.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 8.5 (high) 10.0 (max) 12.0 [asp] septa: present [asp] septa: transversely septate [asp] transversal septa: (median) 1.0 [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless | medium brown, brownish [asp] perispore, epispore: thick, distincly halonate secondary metabolites: absent | present secondary metabolites: stictic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate: rock siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles unspecified. |