Rhizocarpon alpicola (Anzi) Rabenh.  
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Family: Rhizocarpaceae
[Buellia alpicola (Wahlenb.) Anzi, moreBuellia alpicola var. alpicola (Wahlenb.) Anzi, Buellia alpicola var. pallidocinerea Wahlenb., Buellia alpicola var. soluta Bagl. & Garov., Buellia deludens (Nyl.) A.L. Sm., Catocarpus alpicola (Wahlenb.) Arnold, Catocarpus chionophilus (Th. Fr.) Stein, Catocarpus oreites (Vain.) Eitner, Lecidea alpicola (Wahlenb.) Hepp, Lecidea atrovirens var. alpicola Wahlenb., Lecidea atrovirens var. gerontica Ach., Lecidea chionophila (Th. Fr.) Vain., Lecidea chionophila var. chionophila (Th. Fr.) Vain., Lecidea chionophila var. decolorata Vain., Lecidea deludens Nyl., Lecidea geographica var. alpicola (Wahlenb.) Schaer., Lecidea oreites Vain., Rhizocarpon chionophilum Th. Fr., Rhizocarpon chionophilum f. chionophilum Th. Fr., Rhizocarpon chionophilum f. fellmanii Vain., Rhizocarpon chionophilum f. gerontoides Th. Fr., Rhizocarpon chionophilum f. ludibundum Th. Fr., Rhizocarpon chionophilum f. primarium Vain., Rhizocarpon chionophilum var. chionophilum Th. Fr., Rhizocarpon chionophilum var. decolorata (Vain.) Räsänen, Rhizocarpon chionophilum var. fellmanii (Vain.) Räsänen, Rhizocarpon chionophilum var. ludibunda (Th. Fr.) Räsänen, Rhizocarpon chionophilum var. primaria (Vain.) Räsänen, Rhizocarpon chionophilum var. sallensis Räsänen, Rhizocarpon deludens (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Rhizocarpon geographicum f. geronticum (Ach.) Th. Fr., Rhizocarpon geographicum var. alpicola (Wahlenb.) A. Massal., Rhizocarpon geographicum var. geronticum (Ach.) Räsänen, Rhizocarpon oreites (Vain.) Zahlbr., Rhizocarpon oreites f. chlorea Räsänen, Rhizocarpon oreites f. gerontoides (Th. Fr.) Vain., Rhizocarpon oreites f. oreites (Vain.) Zahlbr., Rhizocarpon oreites f. pallidocinereum (Kremp.) Lettau, Rhizocarpon oreites f. pulchra (Räsänen) Räsänen ex Hakul., Rhizocarpon oreites f. solutum (Bagl. & Carestia) Vain., Rhizocarpon oreites var. chloreum (Räsänen) Räsänen, Rhizocarpon oreites var. flavodispersa Räsänen, Rhizocarpon oreites var. gerontoides (Th. Fr.) Räsänen, Rhizocarpon oreites var. oreites (Vain.) Zahlbr., Rhizocarpon oreites var. paludosum Räsänen, Rhizocarpon oreites var. pulchrum Räsänen, Rhizocarpon oreites var. soluta (Bagl. & Carestia) Räsänen]
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Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified thallus: cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate [th] upper surface: green(ish) yellow | white(ish) yellow [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (median) 2.5 ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial ascoma [mm]: (median) 1.5 ascoma: sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) [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) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | black(ish) brown [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) asci: lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) ascospores: (median) 8.0 [asp] shape: ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (low) 20.0 (high) 35.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 10.0 (high) 16.0 [asp] septa: present [asp] septa: transversely septate [asp] transversal septa: (median) 1.0 [asp] pigmentation: medium brown, brownish | dark brown [asp] perispore, epispore: thick, distincly halonate secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: psoromic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

substrate: rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified.
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