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General
substrate
wood
soil
calciferous rock
rock (unspecified)
bark
non-calciferous rock
Thallus Growth Morphology
crustose growth forms
continuous
areolate (flattened areoles)
lobate (incl. effigurate, rosulate, placodioid, subcrustose)
Ascomata
ascomata*
present
absent
ascomata kind*
perithecioid
apothecioid
hymenium paraphyses(-oids)*
absent
present
Asci
ascus wall thickening
thickened
not thickened
ascus dehiscence type
prototunicate
lecanoralean
verrucarioid
Ascospores
ascospores shape*
ellipsoid
broadly ellipsoid
subglobose
globose
ovoid
fusiform (spindle-shaped)
ascospores septation
absent
present
Secondary Metabolites [general]
secondary metabolite presence
present
absent
Conidiomata
conidiomata*
absent
present
Upper Thallus Surface
upper surface color - overall*
yellowish red
greyish green
yellow
brownish green
red
blackish grey
green
brownish grey
greyish yellow
reddish yellow
yellowish brown
orange
greenish brown
black
greenish grey
brown
lime yellow (bright greenish yellow; geographicum-green)
grey
greenish yellow