Caloplaca persimilis
Description 2
Life habit: lichenized; Thallus: crustose, continuous or areolate, margin thinning at edge, without elongated lobes; prothallus: absent; surface: yellowish orange, pruinose, sorediate; soredia: fine, in delimited, laminal, irregular or round soralia; cortex: cellular, 20-35 µm thick, granules absent; medulla without granules; Apothecia: adnate, 0.4-0.8 mm in diam., lecanorine; disc: dark reddish orange, flat, epruinose; margin: persistent, flush; thalline margin absent; proper margin visible, concolorous with disc; parathecium: consisting of radiating hyphae, exciple below hypothecium irregular hyphae; epihymenium: golden, K+ red; hymenium: hyaline, 60-70(-85) µm tall; tip cells not swollen, with some branching; subhymenium hyaline; asci: cylindrical, 8-spored; ascospores: hyaline, 2 locules, ellipsoid, 11-15.5 x 5.5-7(-8.5) µm, isthmus (1.5-)3-4(-5.5) µm, spore end wall thin; Pycnidia: present, mostly immersed, ostiole orange; Spot tests: thallus K+ red, C+ red; Secondary metabolites: unidentified anthraquinones.; Substrate and ecology: on wood or bark; World distribution: western North America; Sonoran distribution: southern California, Arizona, Baja California Sur, western Chihuahua, Sonora and northern Sinaloa.; Notes: Caloplaca persimilis has a tan to greenish orange areolate thallus that originates under the surface of the substrate, the soredia are tan-orange, and the apothecia are brownish-orange and lack a thalline margin. The soredia are in mounds and similar in color to the thallus. Caloplaca microphyllina has a dark orange subsquamulose thallus and red-orange apothecia.
Fuentes y créditos
- (c) CALS, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), subido por CALS
- (c) Lichen Unlimited: Arizona State University, Tempe., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/10549336
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NaturaLista Mapa
| Color | orange, yellow |
|---|---|
| Morphological feature | soredia |
| Substrate | bark |
| Form | crustose |
