Cladonia botrytes
(K. Hagen) Willd.
Family:
Cladoniaceae
[
Lichen botrytes
K.G. Hagen]
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Life habit:
lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus:
squamulose (squamulous) | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like [th] upper surface: yellow(ish) green [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
ascomata:
absent | present
ascoma:
apothecial, apothecioid hymenial
ascoma:
pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
asci:
lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid tube (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc)
ascospores:
(median) 8.0 [asp] septa: absent spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
conidiomata:
absent | present [co] length [µm]: (low) 5.0 (high) 14.0
secondary metabolites:
present
secondary metabolites:
barbatic acid | rhodocladonic acid | usnic acid
primary photobiont:
present
secondary photobionts
(eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont:
chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate:
wood dead, living
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