Family: Teloschistaceae
[ Caloplaca aurantiaca (Lightf.) Th. Fr. , more, Caloplaca aurantiaca f. dealbata Th. Fr., Caloplaca aurantiaca f. fulva Zahlbr., Caloplaca aurantiaca f. lignicola (Nyl.) Th. Fr., Caloplaca aurantiaca f. oasis (A. Massal.) Th. Fr., Caloplaca aurantiaca var. africana Flagey, Caloplaca aurantiaca var. diffracta Lojka, Caloplaca aurantiaca var. ecrustacea Erichsen, Caloplaca aurantiaca var. isidiosella (Cromb.) Riddle, Caloplaca aurantiaca var. pseudoparasitica (Lamy) Erichsen, Caloplaca aurantiaca var. sendaiensis (Räsänen) Cretz., Caloplaca aurantiaca var. suberythrella (Nyl.) H. Olivier, Caloplaca aurantiaca var. subgilva (Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr., Caloplaca aurantiaca var. velana (A. Massal.) Flagey, Caloplaca flavorubescens (Hudson) J. R. Laundon, Lecanora aurantiaca var. microthelia (Ach.) Nyl., Lichen flavorubescens Huds., Parmelia microthelia Ach.] |
Global occurrence: Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic. Substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs. Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts). Thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified; [th] upper surface: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured); [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent. Ascomata: absent | present; ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial; ascoma [mm]: (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0; [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow); [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose; [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow). Asci: lecanoralean; [asc] tholus: thickened; [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present; [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc). Ascospores: (median) 8.0; [asp] length [µm]: (low) 15.0 (high) 18.0; [asp] width [µm]: (low) 6.0 (high) 10.0; [asp] septa: absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular; [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless; [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent. Secondary metabolites: present, unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s). Primary photobiont: present, chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid. Secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent. |