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Biatora vernalis
(L.) Fr.
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Family:
Ramalinaceae
[
Biatora helvola subsp. minor
(Nyl.) Räsänen,
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Biatorina vernalis
(L.) Kernst.,
Bilimbia vernalis
(L.) Trevis.,
Lecidea luteola var. vernalis
(L.) Overeem,
Lecidea vernalis
(L.) Ach.,
Lecidea vernalis f. incana
Th. Fr.,
Lecidea vernalis f. minor
Nyl.,
Lecidea vernalis f. pachyloma
(Hazsl.) Zahlbr.,
Lecidea vernalis f. subsylvana
Vain.,
Lecidea vernalis f. vernalis
(L.) Ach.,
Lecidea vernalis subsp. helvola
(Körb. ex Hellb.) Th. Fr.,
Lecidea vernalis subsp. minor
(Nyl.) Nyl. ex Norrl.,
Lecidea vernalis subsp. minuta
(Schaer.) Nyl.,
Lecidea vernalis subsp. tenebricosa
Nyl.,
Lecidea vernalis subsp. vernalis
(L.) Ach.,
Lecidea vernalis var. minor
Nyl.,
Lecidea vernalis var. vernalis
(L.) Ach.,
Lichen vernalis
L.,
Parmelia vernalis
(L.) Chevall.,
Patellaria vernalis
(L.) Spreng.,
Pyrrhospora vernalis
(L.) M. Choisy,
Secoliga vernalis
(L.) Norman,
Verrucaria vernalis
(L.) Baumg.
]
Stephen Sharnoff
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Life habit:
lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus:
crustose (crustaceous) episubstratal unspecified
thallus:
granular, granulose, granulate [th] upper surface: grey(ish) | green(ish) | brown(ish) grey | grey(ish) green [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.1 (high) 0.25 [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper
surface:
granulose, granular | verrucose, warted
ascomata:
absent | present
ascoma:
apothecial, apothecioid hymenial
ascoma
[mm]: (low) 0.35 (high) 0.6 (max) 1.45
ascoma:
sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith]
basal excipulum:
hyaline, colourless [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
asci:
lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) ascospores: (median) 8.0 [asp] shape: narrowly ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (min) 10.0 (low) 12.6 (high) 19.4 (max) 25.5 [asp] width [µm]: (min) 4.0 (low) 4.3 (high) 5.8 (max) 7.0 [asp] septa: absent spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present [asp] septa: transversely septate [asp] transversal septa: (low) 0.0 (high) 1.0 (max) 3.0 [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
secondary metabolites:
absent
primary photobiont:
present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia):
absent
primary photobiont:
chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate: bryophytes mosses, liverworts | wood dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface trunks, branches, twigs.
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