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Baden-Württemberg - Lichens of Wales

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cup ends, with or without squamules or<br />

projecting lamellae Cladonia<br />

21 Thallus on lime-rich rocks, usually brown to<br />

black, also whitish pruinose, with bluegreen<br />

algae. . . GS Polychidium<br />

(If gray to (gray)brown, underside whitish to<br />

slightly brownish, with flattened, -0.3 mm wide<br />

marginal granular segments, with isolated<br />

rhizines, with green algae<br />

↑. Phaeophyscia nigricans)<br />

21* Not on limestone 22<br />

22 Thallus white, gray, olive, occasionally lightly<br />

browned 23<br />

22* Thallus brown, dark brown, black, gray-black 30<br />

23 Thallus segment clearly wider than thick, band<br />

like flattened to channeled, ± branched . 24<br />

23* Thallus segment/branch ± cylindrical to weakly<br />

flattened, scarcely wider than thick 27<br />

24 Thallus ± erect on peat, 2-6 cm, segments clearly<br />

channeled, flattened toward the ends, on one side<br />

bright brown to olive, on the other side usually<br />

lighter, brownish-white, olive-white, with<br />

numerous occurring whitish pseudo-cyphellae,<br />

the margins covered with small teeth, reddish at<br />

the base . Cetraria islandica<br />

24* Thallus whitish to gray, if gray-brown, then<br />

finely velvety (hand lens), base not reddish. . 25<br />

25 Thallus segment with isolated stiff whitish to<br />

dark cilia or bristles on the lobe ends<br />

occasionally marginal, usually with terminal lip<br />

or helmet-form soralia or with ap. Often loosely<br />

attached, not spreading, not pendent<br />

GS Physcia<br />

25* Thallus segment without such cilia, narrowly to<br />

broadly band like, ± forked, somewhat enrolled<br />

at the sides, therefor the underside slightly<br />

channeled. Ap. very rare 26<br />

26 Thallus ± thickly covered with cylindrical isidia,<br />

gray, underside <strong>of</strong> the younger parts whitish to<br />

rose, the older parts dull blue-blackish to black,<br />

forked branching, very variable, up to over 10 cm<br />

long . Lobes 1-5 mm wide .<br />

Pseudevernia furfuracea<br />

26* Thallus without cylindrical isidia, with soralia at<br />

the margins and/or on the surface, gray, <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

with slightly unevenness, undersides whitish,<br />

usually to 5 cm long. Lobes 1-3 mm wide<br />

Evernia prunastri var. herinii<br />

(if the undersides black or brown, segments<br />

strongly protruding, but foliose: GS Cetraria)<br />

27 Thallus thread-like, ± richly branching, pendent<br />

or decumbent, <strong>of</strong>ten ± beard-like, whitish, beige,<br />

gray, gray-brown, or olive. Threads commonly<br />

0.3-1 mm thick, not clearly angular. Bryoria<br />

27* Thallus segment not thin and thread-like, if<br />

beard-like, then segment angular and with<br />

pointed shore branches 28<br />

28 Thallus loosely pendent, loosely branched,<br />

angular long pitted, with cross-cracked cortex,<br />

whitish, like Evernia divaricata in habit, on tree<br />

bark . Evernia illyrica<br />

28* Thallus ascending to erect or bushy erect, <strong>of</strong><br />

simple peg-form to richly branched segments, on<br />

peat, rock, or bark . 29<br />

29 Thallus segments in places with large granules or<br />

with squamules or covered with small folia.<br />

Thallus <strong>of</strong> erect to ascending, simple to mostly<br />

branched, cylindrical to slightly flattened pegs or<br />

“stemlets” (“Pseudopodetia”), whitish to gray.<br />

The stemlets at times felty layer. Ap. brown,<br />

dark brown, <strong>of</strong>ten lacking. Sp. 3- to cross septate<br />

multicellular. On silicate rock and peat<br />

Stereocaulon<br />

29* Thallus segment with a smooth, cartilaginous,<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten slightly shiny upper surface, with cortex,<br />

not squamulose or granular. Thallus tufted erect<br />

to ascending, <strong>of</strong>ten coraloid, <strong>of</strong> cylindrical to<br />

flattened, moderately to strongly branching<br />

stems, light gray to light brownish, tips sometimes<br />

whitish. Ap. very rare, in spherical<br />

swellings, with dusty spore masses (Mazaedium).<br />

Spores on celled, spherical, dark. On silicate<br />

rock and bark . Sphaerophorus<br />

30 Thallus <strong>of</strong> very thin black to brown-black <strong>of</strong> a ±<br />

thick felt film growing over -20 µm thick thread,<br />

which in each case consists <strong>of</strong> a central<br />

Trentepohlia thread and a sheath <strong>of</strong> hyphae<br />

(microscope). On very shady vertical surfaces<br />

and overhangs <strong>of</strong> silicate rock<br />

GS Cystocoleus<br />

30* Thallus not with Trentepohlia. If thallus threads<br />

similarly thin, then with bluegreen algae . 31<br />

31 With bluegreen algae. Thallus small shrubby<br />

(1.5 cm high) or decumbent threads. Thallus<br />

segment usually only -0.2 mm thick, usually on<br />

occasionally moistened sites on rock or rock<br />

dwelling mosses, rarely on soil.<br />

GS Polychidium<br />

31* With true green algae. The thicker thallus<br />

branches at times (0.3-)4 mm thick. <strong>Lichens</strong> on<br />

bark, wood, rock, pear or mosses . 32<br />

32 On peat, raw humus, or soil mosses. Thallus<br />

decumbent to bushy erect, commonly 1.5-6 cm<br />

high 33<br />

32* On tree bark, wood, or rock . 34<br />

33 Thallus/medulla K+ yellow, C/KC+ red, P+<br />

yellow. Thallus <strong>of</strong> ± cylindrical, only basally<br />

somewhat flattened, thick branches, very richly<br />

branching, dark gray-brown to gray-black, the<br />

base light gray-brown to rose-brown, with small<br />

whitish pseudocyphellae, -5 cm high.<br />

Alectorialic acid, or Barbatolic acid. Only in<br />

alpine sites, Alps Alectoria nigricans<br />

33* Thallus/medulla R- or medulla P+ orange, K-, C-.<br />

Thallus <strong>of</strong> weakly to clearly flattened or<br />

channeled rarely irregularly cylindrical, 1-10 mm<br />

wide segments, weakly to richly branched, bright<br />

brown to black-brown, usually with pseudo-<br />

38

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