Family: Teloschistaceae
[ Blastenia flavovirescens (Wulfen) B. de Lesd. , more, Callopisma aurantiacum var. flavovirescens (Wulfen) A. Massal., Callopisma aurantiacum var. inalpinum (Ach.) Arnold, Callopisma flavovirescens (Wulfen) A. Massal., Callopisma flavovirescens f. cavernarum (Räsänen) Räsänen, Callopisma flavovirescens f. flavovirescens (Wulfen) A. Massal., Caloplaca aurantiaca var. erythrella (Ach.) Th. Fr., Caloplaca aurantiaca var. flavovirescens (Wulfen) Th. Fr., Caloplaca aurantiaca var. inalpina (Ach.) H. Magn., Caloplaca erythrella (Ach.) Kieff., Caloplaca flavorubescens subsp. flavovirescens (Wulfen) Clauzade & Cl. Roux, Caloplaca flavovirescens (Wulfen) Dalla Torre & Sarnth., Caloplaca flavovirescens f. flavovirescens (Wulfen) Dalla Torre & Sarnth., Caloplaca flavovirescens var. flavovirescens (Wulfen) Dalla Torre & Sarnth., Caloplaca flavovirescens var. inalpina (Ach.) Zahlbr., Lecanora aurantiaca f. flavovirescens (Wulfen) Hoffm., Lecanora aurantiaca subsp. erythrella (Ach.) Nyl. ex Cromb., Lecanora aurantiaca var. erythrella (Ach.) Nyl., Lecanora aurantiaca var. inalpina (Ach.) Leight., Lecanora erythrella (Ach.) Ach., Lecanora erythrella var. erythrella (Ach.) Ach., Lecanora erythrella var. pseudoparasitica Lamy, Lecanora flavovirescens (Wulfen) Duby, Lecanora inalpina Ach., Lecanora salicina var. erythrella (Ach.) Sommerf., Lecidea erythrella (Ach.) Schaer., Lecidea erythrella var. flavovirescens (Wulfen) Schaer., Lichen erythrellus Ach., Lichen flavovirescens Wulfen, Parmelia erythrella (Ach.) Ach., Patellaria flavovirescens (Wulfen) Hoffm., Placodium aurantiacum var. flavovirescens (Wulfen) Naeg. ex Hepp, Placodium aurantiacum var. inalpinum (Ach.) H. Magn., Placodium flavovirescens (Wulfen) Vain., Placodium flavovirescens var. cavernarum Räsänen, Placodium flavovirescens var. flavovirescens (Wulfen) Vain., Rinodina erythrella (Ach.) Gray, Verrucaria flavovirescens (Wulfen) Hoffm.] |
Life habit: lichenized Thallus: crustose, areolate, margin abrupt at edge, without elongated lobes; prothallus: present, black surface: yellowish orange or greenish yellow, smooth, without asexual propagules cortex: cellular, 1521 µm thick, granules absent; medulla paraplectenchymatous, without granules Apothecia: adnate, 0.3-1 mm, lecanorine disc: brownish orange, flat or convex, epruinose margin: persistent or disappearing, flush; thalline margin present, concolorous with thallus; proper margin visible, little lighter than disc parathecium: consisting of radiating hyphae or elongate to oval cells; exciple below hypothecium irregular hyphae epihymenium: golden, K+ red, C- hymenium: hyaline, 70-85 µm tall paraphyses: 1-2 tip cells slightly swollen, with few branches or with some branching; subhymenium hyaline asci: cylindrical, 8-spored ascospores: hyaline, 2 locules, ellipsoid, 12.515.5(-17) x 5.5-8.5 µm, isthmus (3.5-)4-5.5 µm, spore end wall thin Pycnidia: present, totally immersed, ostiole orange Spot tests: apothecial margin K+ red; thallus K+ red Secondary metabolites: parietin, fallacinal, emodin, and teloschistin. Substrate and ecology: on non-calcareous rock or occasionally on calcareous rocks World distribution: worldwide Sonoran distribution: Arizona, southern California, Baja California Sur, western Chihuahua, and Sonora. Notes: Caloplaca flavovirescens has a fairly thin or somewhat thickened yellow-green areolate thallus with darker orange apothecia. |