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Cetraria muricata (Ach.) Eckfeldt  
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Family: Parmeliaceae
[Cetraria aculeata f. hispida Cromb., moreCetraria aculeata var. muricata (Ach.) Schaer., Cetraria stuppea (Flot.) Zopf, Coelocaulon aculeatum subsp. hispidum (Cromb.) D. Hawksw., Coelocaulon muricatum (Ach.) J.R. Laundon, Cornicularia aculeata var. hispida (Lightf.) Cromb., Cornicularia aculeata var. muricata (Ach.) Ach., Cornicularia aculeata var. stuppea Flot., Cornicularia muricata (Ach.) Ach., Cornicularia muricata f. alpina (Schaer.) Gyeln., Cornicularia muricata f. muricata (Ach.) Ach., Cornicularia muricata f. pallecens (Harm.) Motyka, Cornicularia muricata var. muricata (Ach.) Ach., Cornicularia muricata var. sorediella (Erichsen) Erichsen, Cornicularia stuppea (Flot.) Sandst., Cornicularia tenuissima f. hispida (Lightf.) Zahlbr., Cornicularia tenuissima var. hispida (Lightf.) Keissl., Cornicularia tenuissima var. muricata (Ach.) Dalla Torre & Sarnth., Lichen hispidus Lightf., Lichen muricatus Ach.]
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Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse [th] upper surface: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: present [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: absent [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: absent [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: present [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (min) 0.5 [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial ascoma [mm]: (low) 2.0 (high) 5.0 [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present asci: lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) ascospores: (median) 8.0 [asp] shape: ellipsoidal [asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: lichesterinic acid | protolichesterinic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

substrate: soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified.
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