Nephroma expallidum
(Nyl.) Nyl.
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Life habit:
lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus:
foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like [th] upper surface: brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | green(ish) brown (olive brown) [th upper surface]: epruinose [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (min) 18.0 [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper
surface:
smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | uneven, undulate [th] lower surface: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) [th lower surface] specific structures: absent | present [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: absent
ascomata:
absent | present
ascoma:
apothecial, apothecioid hymenial
ascoma
[mm]: (min) 15.0
ascoma:
sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
asci:
lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
ascospores:
(median) 8.0 [asp] length [µm]: (low) 17.0 (high) 21.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0 [asp] septa: present [asp] septa: transversely septate [asp] transversal septa: (median) 3.0 [asp] pigmentation: pale brown [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
conidiomata:
absent | present
conidia:
bacilliform, bacillar [co] length [µm]: (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0
secondary metabolites:
present
secondary metabolites:
15α-acetoxyhopane-22-ol (dolichorrhizin) | hopane-15α,22-diol | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) | unknown/unidentified compound(s)
primary photobiont:
present
secondary photobionts
(eg in cephalodia): present
primary photobiont:
chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate:
soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes mosses, liverworts.
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