Family: Verrucariaceae
[ Dermatocarpon daedaleum (Kremp.) Th. Fr. , more, Dermatocarpon daedaleum f. daedaleum (Kremp.) Th. Fr., Dermatocarpon daedaleum f. humicola (Lönnr.) H. Magn., Dermatocarpon daedaleum var. corticola H. Magn., Dermatocarpon daedaleum var. daedaleum (Kremp.) Th. Fr., Endocarpon daedaleum Kremp., Endopyrenium daedaleum (Kremp.) Körb., Placidiopsis daedalea (Kremp.) Creveld, Placidium daedaleum (Kremp.) Kremp., Placocarpus daedaleus (Kremp.) Trevis., Rhodocarpon daedaleum (Kremp.) Lönnr., Rhodocarpon daedaleum f. daedaleum (Kremp.) Lönnr., Rhodocarpon daedaleum f. humicola Lönnr., Verrucaria daedalea (Kremp.) Nyl.] |
Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: squamulose (squamulous) thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse [th] upper surface: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) grey [th upper surface]: epruinose | pruinose [th upper surface] pruina: scarce, sparse, fine [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 1.0 (high) 4.0 [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: squamulose [th] lower surface: black(ish) [th lower surface] specific structures: present [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: present ascomata: absent | present ascoma: perithecial, perithecioid hymenial ascoma [mm]: (min) 0.3 ascoma: immersed, innate [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: absent asci: fissitunicate verrucarialean [asc] tholus: not thickened | thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent ascospores: (median) 8.0 [asp] shape: ellipsoidal | oval | clavate [asp] length [µm]: (min) 15.0 (low) 17.0(median) 18.5 (high) 22.0 (max) 24.0 [asp] width [µm]: (min) 5.0 (low) 6.0(median) 6.2 (high) 9.0 (max) 9.0 [asp] septa: absent spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent secondary metabolites: absent primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate: soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes mosses, liverworts. |