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Cetraria muricata
(Ach.) Eckfeldt
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Family:
Parmeliaceae
[
Cetraria aculeata f. hispida
Cromb.,
more
Cetraria 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.
]
Stephen Sharnoff
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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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