Epilichen scabrosus (Ach.) Clem. ex Hafellner  
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Family: Rhizocarpaceae
[Buellia scabrosa (Ach.) A. Massal., moreBuellia scabrosa f. scabrosa (Ach.) A. Massal., Buellia scabrosa var. cinerascens Th. Fr., Buellia scabrosa var. scabrosa (Ach.) A. Massal., Catillaria scabrosa (Ach.) Boist., Ephebe scabrosus (Ach.) Clem., Karschia scabrosa (Ach.) Rehm, Lecidea scabrosa Ach., Lichen scabrosus (Ach.) Sm., Skolekites scabrosus (Ach.) Norman]
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Life habit: lichenicolous (in/on lichens) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | squamulose (squamulous) [th] upper surface: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial ascoma [mm]: (min) 0.1 (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 (max) 3.0 [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: subconvex, slightly convex | convex [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: brown(ish) black [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: green(ish) black | green(ish) brown (olive brown) asci: lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid cap, ring (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) ascospores: (median) 8.0 [asp] shape: broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (min) 10.0 (low) 11.5 (high) 14.0 (max) 18.0 [asp] width [µm]: (min) 4.0 (low) 5.5 (high) 7.5 (max) 9.5 [asp] septa: present [asp] septa: transversely septate [asp] transversal septa: (median) 1.0 [asp] pigmentation: medium brown, brownish [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: pulvinic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

substrate: lichens, lichenized fungi.
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