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Rhizocarpon eupetraeoides
(Nyl.) Blomb. & Forss.
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Family:
Rhizocarpaceae
[
Catocarpus chionophiloides
(Vain.) Mereschk.,
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Lecidea atroalbescens
Nyl.,
Lecidea chionophiloides
Vain.,
Lecidea eupetraeoides
Nyl.,
Rhizocarpon atroalbens
(Nyl.) Zahlbr.,
Rhizocarpon atroalbescens
(Nyl.) Zahlbr.,
Rhizocarpon chionophiloides
(Vain.) Vain.,
Rhizocarpon chionophiloides f. atroalbescens
(Nyl.) Räsänen,
Rhizocarpon chionophiloides f. chionophiloides
(Vain.) Vain.,
Rhizocarpon chionophiloides f. subnegans
(Vain.) Vain.,
Rhizocarpon chionophiloides var. chionophiloides
(Vain.) Vain.,
Rhizocarpon chionophiloides var. subnegans
(Vain.) Räsänen
]
Gary Perlmutter
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Life habit:
lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus:
crustose (crustaceous) episubstratal unspecified
thallus:
compartimentized areolate, squamulate [th] upper surface: black(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) [th upper surface]: epruinose [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (min) 1.5
ascomata:
absent | present
ascoma:
apothecial, apothecioid hymenial
ascoma
[mm]: (min) 1.5
ascoma:
sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose [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) [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
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) 18.0 (high) 32.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 10.0 (high) 15.0 [asp] septa: absent spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present [asp] septa: transversely septate [asp] transversal septa: (median) 1.0 [asp] pigmentation: dark brown [asp] perispore, epispore: thick, distincly halonate
secondary metabolites:
present
secondary metabolites:
bourgeanic acid | norstictic acid | rhizocarpic 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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