Peltula
Family: Peltulaceae
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Gary Perlmutter
  • Greater Sonoran Desert
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Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2002. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1.
Life habit: lichenized Thallus: peltate, crustose, squamulose, or suffruticose (rarely cylindrical); margins: entire, minutely lobate to sometimes effigurate upper surface: olive green to olive brown, rarely black; with or without soredia upper cortex: usually absent but with an epinecral layer medulla: white, with numerous airspaces, composed of globose or elongated hyphae photobionts: primary one an unicellular cyanobacterium (Chroococcidiopsis or Myxosarcina), secondary photobiont absent lower cortex: normally well developed, pseudoparenchymatous lower surface: usually paler than the upper surface, attached by an umbilicus, rhizohyphal weft or rhizines Ascomata: apothecial, lecanorine, completely immersed or with a raised rim; disc: punctiform or widely opened; hymenium: 90-300 µm high; paraphyses: sometimes anastomosing, rarely branched, 1-3.5 µm thick; subhymenium: 16-70 µm asci: clavate to obclavate, unitunicate-rostrate (lecanoralean type), 60-170 x 10-30 µm; walls: red or blue in iodine (blue after K pretreatment); 16->100-spored ascospores: simple, hyaline, globose to ellipsoid, 3-12 x 2-6 µm Conidiomata: pycnidial, solitary to cerebriform, immersed conidia: oval to fusiform, hyaline, 1.5-4.3 x 0.5-2.5 µm Secondary metabolites: none detected in North American material Geography: predominately in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, but occurring wherever arid microclimates are found Substrate: acidic or calcareous rocks or soil.
Species within checklist: Chickasaw National Recreation Area (Oklahoma)
Peltula africana
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Peltula applanata
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Peltula auriculata
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Peltula bolanderi
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Peltula boletiformis
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Peltula brasiliensis
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Peltula capensis
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Peltula cataractae
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Peltula clavata
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Peltula congregata
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Peltula coriacea
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Peltula crispatula
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Peltula cylindrica
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Peltula euploca
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Peltula farinosa
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Peltula guepinii
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Peltula hassei
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Peltula imbricata
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Peltula impressa
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Peltula impressula
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Peltula inversa
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Peltula japonica
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Peltula kofleri
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Peltula laciniata
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Peltula leptophylla
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Peltula lingulata
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Peltula marginata
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Peltula michoacanensis
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Peltula minuta
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Peltula nigrotestudinea
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Peltula obscurans
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Peltula omphaliza
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Peltula patellata
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Peltula placodizans
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Peltula polyspora
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Peltula psammophila
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Peltula radiata
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Peltula radicata
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Peltula richardsii
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Peltula rodriguesii
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Peltula ruinicola
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Peltula santessonii
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Peltula sonorensis
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Peltula steppae
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Peltula tenebrata
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Peltula tenuis
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Peltula tortuosa
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Peltula umbilicata
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Peltula zabolotnoji
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Peltula zahlbruckneri
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