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Ochrolechia upsaliensis (L.) A. Massal.  
Family: Ochrolechiaceae
[Lecanora upsaliensis (L.) Röhl.,  more]
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Stephen Sharnoff  
Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified [th] upper surface: white(ish) [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial ascoma: sessile, superficial [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: white(ish) [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: present [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: hyaline, colourless [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present 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) 45.0 (high) 75.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 30.0 (high) 50.0 [asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: murolic acid | variolaric acid 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.
Ochrolechia upsaliensis image
Ochrolechia upsaliensis image
Ochrolechia upsaliensis image
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