Consortium of Lichen Herbaria - Pyrenula pseudobufonia

Pyrenula pseudobufonia (Rehm) R.C. Harris
Family: Pyrenulaceae Eastern Pox Lichen [Clypeosphaeria pseudobufonia Rehm, more] Stephen Sharnoff	North Carolina Biodiversity Project Resources North Carolina Biodiversity Project MB# 114871 Type. UNITED STATES. TEXAS, Mt Spanish, on bark of oak, W.H. Long, Jr. 567 (CUP, CUP-L-0004861, isotype) https://storage.idigbio.org/cup/lichens/CUP-L-0004/CUP-L-0004861.jpg Description. Lichenized fungus. Thallus crustose, thin, endophloedal, olive-green; vegetative diaspores absent; photobiont: Trentepohlia. Ascomata perithecia, hemispherical, black, 0.4-1.0 mm diam.; wall carbonized, entire; hymenium colorless, inspersed with oil drops, gel K/I+ blue-green; paraphyses filiform. Asci clavate, 8-spored, in 1 row. Ascospores olive-brown, ellipsoid, four-celled, 13-24 x 7-12 μm. Pycnidia not reported. Chemistry. UV+ yellow-orange, K-; secondary metabolites: lichexanthone detected. Substrate and Habitat. On bark of hardwood trees in hardwood and mixed forests. Distribution. Northern temperate, most common in eastern North America; in North Carolina throughout. Literature Brodo, I.M., S. Duran Sharnoff & S. Sharnoff. 2001. Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven & London. 795 pp. Harris, R.C. 1989. A sketch of the family Pyrenulaceae (Melanommatales) in eastern North America. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 49: 74-107. Rehm, H. 1904. Ascomycetes Americae borealis. Annales Mycologici. 2(2):175-178 (original description as Clypeosphaeria pseudobufonia).
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