Ochrolechia frigida
(Sw.) Lynge
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Ochrolechiaceae
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Life habit:
lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus:
crustose (crustaceous) episubstratal unspecified
thallus:
granular, granulose, granulate [th] upper surface: grey(ish) white | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent | present [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: absent [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: absent [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: present
ascomata:
absent | present
ascoma:
apothecial, apothecioid hymenial
ascoma
[mm]: (median) 5.0 (max) 7.0
ascoma:
sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) [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) 25.0 (high) 40.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 15.0 (high) 26.0 [asp] septa: absent spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
secondary metabolites:
present
secondary metabolites:
gyrophoric acid
primary photobiont:
present
secondary photobionts
(eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont:
chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate:
bryophytes mosses, liverworts.
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