Porpidia speirea (Ach.) Krempelh.  
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Family: Lecideaceae
[Huilia speirea (Ach.) Kremp., moreLecidea cinerascens A.L. Sm., Lecidea contigua f. alpina Hepp ex Arnold, Lecidea speirea (Ach.) Ach., Lecidea speirea f. alpina (Hepp ex Arnold) Arnold, Lecidea speirea f. concentrica Szatala, Lecidea speirea f. meiosporoides Norrl., Lecidea speirea f. speirea (Ach.) Ach., Lecidea speirea f. trullisata (Kremp.) Stein, Lecidea speirea subsp. alpina (Hepp ex Arnold) Arnold, Lecidea speirea subsp. speirea (Ach.) Ach., Lecidea speirea subsp. subconfluens Th. Fr., Lecidea speirea var. alpina (Hepp ex Arnold) Hertel, Lecidea speirea var. calcarea Ach., Lecidea speirea var. prochsthallina (A. Massal.) Hertel, Lecidea speirea var. speirea (Ach.) Ach., Lecidea speirea var. trullisata (Kremp.) Arnold, Lecidea subumbonata Nyl., Lecidea subumbonella Lamy, Lichen speireus Ach., Patellaria speirea (Ach.) Duby]
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Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate [th] upper surface: white(ish) | white(ish) brown (beige) [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: smooth, plane | granulose, granular | verrucose, warted [th] medulla amyloidity: present ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.2 (high) 2.0 ascoma: immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose | pruinose [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: absent [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: brown(ish) black [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: green(ish) brown (olive brown) asci: lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) ascospores: (median) 8.0 [asp] shape: ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (low) 12.0 (high) 19.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 6.0 (high) 9.0 [asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent | thin, thinly halonate | thick, distincly halonate conidiomata: absent | present conidia: bacilliform, bacillar secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: 2'-O-methylmicrophyllinic acid | 2'-O-methylperlatolic acid | confluentic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

substrate: rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified.
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