spike lichen
Calicium abietinum
Description 5
Life habit: lichenized; Thallus: immersed; Apothecia: not pruinose, 0.6-0.9 mm tall, 6-11 times as high as the width of the stalk; stalk: in longitudinal section dark brown, consisting of densely intertwined, sclerotized hyphae; outermost part: +hyaline, with pale hyphae and a thin sheet of gelatinous material at the surface, often with brownish or olivaceous tinge, or shiny black, 0.08-0.13 mm wide; capitulum: 0.21-0.28 mm in diam., lens- or slightly bell-shaped; exciple: upper part of exciple often slightly translucent, pale, formed as a continuation of stalk tissue, with isodiametric to slightly elongated and anti-clinally arranged, heavily sclerotized cells; hypothecium: flat or slightly convex; asci: 44 x 4-5 µm, cylindrical, with uniseriate spores; ascospores: semi-mature spores without ornamentation; mature spores: ellipsoid, 11-15 x 5-7 µm, with irregular ornamentation of small pustules (minutely warted) giving rise to dotted appearance in light microscope, sometimes with a few irregular cracks; Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-; apothecia I-; Secondary metabolites: none detected.; Substrate and ecology: on wood, especially conifers and oaks, also decaying stumps and logs, in fringe areas of forests in moderate to rather strong light; World distribution: Europe, North, Central and South America, and Australasia; Sonoran distribution: Arizona and Channel Islands, California.; Notes: Calicium abietinum is recognized by its immersed thallus, the non-pruinose apothecia and the rather large spores, that have an ornamentation of minute warts.
Fuentes y créditos
- (c) Eric Peterson, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7211/14011836902_b3f017ea6a_o.jpg
- (c) licensed media from BioImages DwCA without owner, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/../image.php?id=31501
- (c) André Aptroot, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.tropicallichens.net/photopath/calicium-abietinum-yunnan.jpg
- (c) Sophia Lee, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10529819
- (c) Lichen Unlimited: Arizona State University, Tempe., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/10548134
