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Micarea melaena
Micarea melaena
(Nyl.) Hedl.
Family:
Pilocarpaceae
[
Bacidia ilyophora
(Stirt.) Zahlbr.,
more
Bacidia melaena
(Nyl.) Zahlbr.,
Bacidia melaena f. melaena
(Nyl.) Zahlbr.,
Bacidia melaena f. turfosa
(Th. Fr.) Zahlbr.,
Biatora globularis
(Nyl.) Räsänen,
Biatora melaena
(Nyl.) Tuck.,
Bilimbia ilyophora
(Stirt.) Wheldon & A. Wilson,
Bilimbia melaena
(Nyl.) Arnold,
Bilimbia melaena f. melaena
(Nyl.) Arnold,
Bilimbia melaena f. turfosa
Th. Fr.,
Lecidea globularis
Ach. ex Nyl.,
Lecidea globularis f. deviella
Vain.,
Lecidea globularis f. globularis
Nyl.,
Lecidea globularis f. misella
(Nyl.) Vain.,
Lecidea globularis f. olivascens
Vain.,
Lecidea ilyophora
Stirt.,
Lecidea melaena
Nyl.,
Micarea globularis
(Ach. ex Nyl.) Hedl.,
Patellaria melaena
(Nyl.) Müll.Arg.,
Weitenwebera melaena
(Nyl.) Poetsch
]
Bulletin of the British Museum
LIAS
Resources
Coppins, B.J. (1983) A taxonomic study of the lichen genus Micarea in Europe. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Botany Series 11(2): 17-214.
Page 150.
Botanische Staatssammlung München
Life habit:
lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus:
crustose (crustaceous) episubstratal unspecified [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
ascomata:
absent | present
ascoma:
apothecial, apothecioid hymenial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: subconvex, slightly convex | convex [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith]
basal excipulum:
black(ish) brown | blue(ish) red (purple) [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green)
asci:
lecanoralean [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc)
ascospores:
(median) 8.0 [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
primary photobiont:
present
secondary photobionts
(eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont:
chlorophytaceous trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.
substrate:
soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves.
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