Stereocaulon tomentosum
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Life habit:
lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus:
fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like
thallus:
continuous, diffuse, effuse [th] upper surface: grey(ish) [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: present [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: absent [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: absent [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper
surface:
squamulose
ascomata:
absent | present
ascoma:
apothecial, apothecioid hymenial
ascoma
[mm]: (low) 0.3 (high) 0.6 [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
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)
secondary metabolites:
present
secondary metabolites:
atranorin | norstictic acid | stictic acid
primary photobiont:
present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent | present
primary photobiont:
chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate:
rock, stones, pebbles unspecified.
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