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Family:
Verrucariaceae
[Polyblastia fuscoargillacea Anzi, more, Polyblastia fuscoargillacea f. fuscoargillacea Anzi, Polyblastia fuscoargillacea f. obscurata (Vain.) Dombr., Polyblastia intercedens Zschacke, Polyblastia intercedens f. integrascens (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Polyblastia intercedens f. intercedens (Nyl.) Lönnr., Polyblastia intercedens var. intercedens (Nyl.) Lönnr., Polyblastia intercedens var. velata Th. Fr., Sporodictyon cupulare (A. Massal.) Trevis., Verrucaria fuscoargillacea (Anzi) Leight., Verrucaria fuscoargillacea f. fuscoargillacea (Anzi) Leight., Verrucaria fuscoargillacea f. obscurata Vain., Verrucaria intercedens Nyl., Verrucaria intercedens f. integrascens Nyl., Verrucaria intercedens f. intercedens Nyl.]
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Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate [th] upper surface: grey(ish) | white(ish) | grey(ish) brown [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: smooth, plane ascomata: absent | present ascoma: perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial ascoma [mm]: (min) 0.28 (low) 0.3 (high) 0.54 (max) 0.7 ascoma: subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: absent [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: absent asci: fissitunicate – verrucarialean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent ascospores: (median) 8.0 [asp] shape: broadly ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (low) 20.0 (high) 55.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 10.0 (high) 30.0 [asp] septa: present [asp] septa: muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless | pale brown [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent conidiomata: absent | present conidia: bacilliform, bacillar 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 | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified.
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