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Diplotomma nivalis (Begl. & Carestia) Hafellner  
Family: Physciaceae






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life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate [th] upper surface: white(ish) [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: verrucose, warted ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | convex [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose | pruinose asci: lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) ascospores:(median) 8.0 [asp] length [µm]: (low) 16.0 (high) 26.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 6.0 (high) 11.0 [asp] septa: present [asp] septa: muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform primary photobiont: absent.

substrate: lichens, lichenized fungi | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic.
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