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Porpidia superba
(Körb.) Hertel & Knoph
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Family:
Lecideaceae
[
Huilia superba
(Körb.) Hertel]
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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: grey(ish) | white(ish) | blue(ish) white | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) | distantly discontiguous [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper
surface:
verrucose, warted | bullate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose [th] medulla amyloidity: absent
ascomata:
absent | present
ascoma:
apothecial, apothecioid hymenial
ascoma
[mm]: (low) 0.5 (high) 1.2 (max) 2.0
ascoma:
subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) black [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose | pruinose [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: scarce, sparse, fine | dense [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) black [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) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown)
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)
ascospores:
(median) 8.0 [asp] shape: ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (low) 16.0 (high) 21.0 (max) 33.0 [asp] width [µm]: (min) 6.0 (low) 7.0 (high) 14.0 [asp] septa: absent spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent | thin, thinly halonate | thick, distincly halonate
conidiomata:
absent | present
conidia:
bacilliform, bacillar
secondary metabolites:
absent | present
secondary metabolites:
stictic acid
primary photobiont:
present
secondary photobionts
(eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont:
chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate:
rock siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles unspecified.
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