orange lichen
Caloplaca microphyllina
Description 6
Life habit: lichenized; Thallus: crustose, areolate or sub-squamulose, margin abrupt at edge, without elongated lobes; prothallus: absent; surface: orange, smooth, sorediate; soredia: granular, in delimited or irregular, laminal or marginal, irregular soralia; cortex: cellular, 16-35 µm thick, granules absent; medulla without granules; Apothecia: adnate, 0.2-1 mm, lecanorine; disc: orange, flat, epruinose; margin: persistent, slightly raised; thalline margin present, concolorous with thallus; proper margin visible, concolorous with disc or little lighter than disc; parathecium: cellular (paraplectenchymatous) including exciple below hypothecium; epihymenium: golden, K+ red, C-; hymenium: hyaline, 55-70(-85) µm tall; paraphyses: 2-3 tip cells slightly swollen, frequently branched; subhymenium hyaline; asci: cylindrical, 8-spored; ascospores: hyaline, 2 locules, ellipsoid, (10-)11-14 x (4-)5.5(-7) µm, isthmus 3-4 µm, spore end wall thin; Pycnidia: present, mostly immersed, ostiole orange; Spot tests: apothecial margin K+ red, C-; thallus K+ red, C-; Secondary metabolites: parietin, fallacinal, emodin, and teloschistin.; Substrate and ecology: on wood or bark; World distribution: Europe, Africa and North America; Sonoran distribution: southern California, Arizona, Baja California, Baja California Sur, western Chihuahua, and Sonora.; Notes: Caloplaca microphyllina is a common species is characterized by the distinctly subsquamulose dark orange thallus usually without a prothallus:. The soredia are about the same color as the thallus and the apothecia are dark orange. Caloplaca persimilis has a tan to greenish orange thallus that originates under the surface of the substrate and the soredia are tan-orange. Species 5 is very similar to C. microphyllina but has globose isidia and no soredia.
Fuentes y créditos
- (c) Andrew K., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), https://images.mushroomobserver.org/640/240311.jpg
- (c) Andrew K., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), https://images.mushroomobserver.org/640/240312.jpg
- (c) Andrew K., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), https://images.mushroomobserver.org/640/240313.jpg
- (c) Andrew K., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), https://images.mushroomobserver.org/640/240314.jpg
- (c) Andrew K., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), https://images.mushroomobserver.org/640/269963.jpg
- (c) Lichen Unlimited: Arizona State University, Tempe., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/10549298
