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Leptogium
Family: Collemataceae
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Frank Bungartz
  • Greater Sonoran Desert
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Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2004. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 2.
Habit: lichenized Thallus: usually foliose, but also crustose to squamulose to dwarf fruticose, + gelatinous, usually lobate lobes: sublinear to subirregular or terete, elongate or short, +plane, separate or occasionally imbricate, (0.1-) 3-15(-20) mm wide; apices: rotund to oblong, entire to crenate or irregularly dissected, sometimes upturned or becoming erect in a few species upper surface: often medium to dark gray, rarely bluish gray, sometimes brown to occasionally blackish brown, dull or shiny, smooth or often strongly wrinkled, sometimes with isidia, phyllidia or lobules but soredia and pseudocyphellae absent photobiont: primary one a species of Nostoc, secondary one absent internal anatomy: typically with both upper and lower cortices consisting of a single (rarely double) layer of irregularly isodiametrical cells, internally usually homiomerous between the cortices but paraplectenchymatous in one group, usually with loosely interwoven chains of Nostoc and hyphae lower surface: same color as the upper surface but usually lighter, smooth or wrinkled, sometimes with a dense white tomentum of cylindrical or spherical hairs or otherwise with scattered tufts of rhizines or hapters Ascomata: apothecial, +present, discoid, laminal to occasionally marginal, sessile to stipitate (very rarely immersed) disc: usually brown or red-brown, concave to plane to convex margin: usually thalline, concolorous with the thallus or darker, smooth to rugulose or wrinkled, rarely pubescent, often isidiate or lobulate in species having those structures exciple: cupular, often forming a raised ring with a contrasting color to the thalline margin, euparaplectenchymatous, sometimes poorly developed centrally hymenium: hyaline below and pale brown or yellow above ("epihymenium"), 50-250 µm tall; paraphyses: usually unbranched, conglutinate, 1-2 µm wide, usually slightly inflated apically; subhymenium: hyaline to pale yellow asci: cylindrico-clavate, (4-)8-spored ascospores: hyaline, usually submuriform or muriform, more rarely only septate transversely, ellipsoid or ovoid to subfusiform, often with acute ends and rarely acuminate ends, 15-50 x 6-18 µm Conidiomata: pycnidial, endo- or exobasidial, rarely observed conidia: hyaline, simple, bacilliform Spot tests: all negative Secondary metabolites: none detected Geography: cosmopolitan, from the tropics to polar regions Substrate: on bark or acidic or basic rocks, more rarely on soil, often among mosses. Notes: Usually Leptogium is easily distinguished from Collema, that has a more olivaceous to black, pulpy thallus without a proper cortex. The two genera are, however, not always clearly differentiated, and several of the sections accepted in Leptogium appears to be more closely related to Collema species than to other Leptogium species. Because Leptogium, unlike Collema, has not been monographed on world level, this question has not been fully resolved. The small species of Leptogium are particularly in need of further investigation in both the Sonoran region and worldwide. Leptochidium albociliatum is often mistaken for a Leptogium, though it has characteristic white hairs marginally, a poorly developed cortex, and one-septate spores.
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Leptogium acadiense
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Leptogium aciculare
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Leptogium acutisporum
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Leptogium adhaerens
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Leptogium adpressum
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Leptogium aequale
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Leptogium africanum
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Leptogium algeriense
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Leptogium algerium
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Leptogium anastomosans
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Leptogium andegavense
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Leptogium andinum
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Leptogium ankolense
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Leptogium anomalum
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Leptogium arcticum
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Leptogium arisanense
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Leptogium arizonicum
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Leptogium arsenei
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Leptogium asiaticum
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Leptogium askotense
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Leptogium atlanticum
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Leptogium atrocoeruleum
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Leptogium atroviride
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Leptogium aucklandicum
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Leptogium australe
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Leptogium austroamericanum
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Leptogium azurellum
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Leptogium azureum
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Leptogium bacatum
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Leptogium bacillare
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Leptogium bellopratense
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Leptogium biatorinum
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Leptogium biloculare
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Leptogium brasiliense
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Leptogium brebissonii
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Leptogium brecknockii
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Leptogium brissonii
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Leptogium britannicum
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Leptogium bullatulum
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Leptogium burgessii
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Leptogium burneti
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Leptogium burnetiae
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Leptogium byssinum
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Leptogium caeruleum
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Leptogium caesiellum
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Leptogium caesium
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Leptogium caespitellum
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Leptogium caespitosum
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Leptogium callithamnium
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Leptogium callopismum
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