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yellowish-green to olive green, P+ red. Ap.<br />
lacking. On soil in dry warm sites (if undersides<br />
white, small foliose (Cladonia) .<br />
Cladonia foliacea s.l.<br />
14* Thallus ± rosette, lobed at least at the margin,<br />
closely appressed or ascending at the margins,<br />
upper side pale yellowish-green, whitish green,<br />
or yellowish, undersides ± whitish, P-, medulla<br />
P- or P+ yellow. Commonly with ± brown ap.<br />
with thalloid margin . Lecanora PT 1<br />
15 Thallus usually -2, rarely 3 cm wide, rosette,<br />
closely attached, interior with <strong>of</strong>ten coalescing<br />
fleck soralia, underside black. Lobes narrow,<br />
flat, delicate, K+ weakly yellowish. Medulla R-.<br />
Above all on acid bark or wood, very rarely on<br />
rock. Parmeliopsis ambigua<br />
15* Thallus with other characteristics (if habitat<br />
similar to the previous species, then the medulla<br />
and soralia K+ orange, P+ orange), underside<br />
pale or brown to black . Parmelia<br />
16 Moist thallus gelatinous swelling, dry very<br />
inflexible, gray, or brown to black. With<br />
bluegreen algae. Algae not arranged in a layer<br />
Key III<br />
16* Moist thallus not gelatinous . 17<br />
17 <strong>Lichens</strong> attached to limestone, mortar, or<br />
concrete . 18<br />
17* <strong>Lichens</strong> on other substrates 19<br />
18 Thallus without rhizines, in the main attached to<br />
the rock only by a ± central post (navel), otherwise<br />
± free, usually little organized and ± one<br />
lobed or rarely many lobed, without soralia or<br />
isidia . Dermatocarpon miniatum<br />
18* Thallus attached at numerous sites by rhizines,<br />
divided deeply into many or few narrow lobes,<br />
usually with soralia or isidia GS Physcia<br />
19 Thallus in the main only attached by a ± centrally<br />
located post (navel) on (silicate) rock, otherwise<br />
± free, usually little organized and ± single lobed<br />
or rarely many lobed (umbilicate lichens) . 20<br />
19* Thallus not attached by a ± central navel, on<br />
rock, bark, mosses or peat . 21<br />
20 Thallus upper side with punctiform small, sunken<br />
black perithecia, gray-white to brownish,<br />
underside ± brownish to rose, smooth to slightly<br />
wrinkled, without rhizines. Sp. colorless, single<br />
celled Dermatocarpon<br />
20* Thallus sterile or with black shield form ap.,<br />
whitish-gray, brown, or black-brown, underside<br />
pale brown to black, with or without rhizines,<br />
smooth, warty or channeled. Sp. one-celled to<br />
muriform, colorless or brown. GS Umbilicaria<br />
21 Thallus lobes welded into one almost schield-like<br />
thallus, closely attached, gray-blue, <strong>of</strong>ten with<br />
filamentous prothallus, with bluegreen algae.<br />
Extremely rare, on high oceanic habitats . Degelia<br />
21* Thallus otherwise . 22<br />
22 Thallus lobes arched at the ends into flat to<br />
saddle form, undersides free ap., generally at<br />
least 2 mm wide, undersides with veins or hairy<br />
or bald. With bluegreen algae, rarely with green<br />
algae, then the thallus in the moist state deep<br />
green . 23<br />
22* Thallus lobes without such terminal ap. . 24<br />
23 Ap. on the upper side <strong>of</strong> the usually ascending<br />
lobes, flat or saddle form. Underside with coarse,<br />
branched and reticulate veins as well as with<br />
tufted rhizines or scattered long single rhizines,<br />
rarely uniformly felty, without cortex. Sp.<br />
narrow spindle like to needle form, four to many<br />
celled cross septate, brown, at least 30µm long .<br />
Peltigera<br />
23* Ap. on the underside <strong>of</strong> the lobes, but <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
opening later, not saddle form, red-brown.<br />
Underside not with such veins, but sometimes<br />
wrinkled, bald or velvety hairy, beige, pale<br />
brown, rarely to black-brown, with cortex. Sp. 4celled,<br />
fusiform, pale brown, up to 27 µm long<br />
Nephroma<br />
24 Underside <strong>of</strong> the thallus orange-red. Alpine soil<br />
lichen . Solorina crocea<br />
24* Underside <strong>of</strong> the thallus not orange-red . 25<br />
25 Ap. sunken in definite rough depressions <strong>of</strong> the<br />
thallus, without thalloid margin. Thallus gray,<br />
green when moist, at times developed as only a<br />
ring around the ap., with green algae, in addition<br />
with bluegreen algae in parts <strong>of</strong> the thallus. Sp.<br />
brown to red-brown, 2-celled by a septum.<br />
Solorina<br />
25* Ap. not in excavated depressions . 26<br />
26 Lichen lobes over 5 mm wide. Relatively large<br />
lichens 27<br />
26* <strong>Lichens</strong> with narrower lobes 37<br />
27 Underside <strong>of</strong> the thallus with stout, branched and<br />
reticulate, raised veins as well as isolated to<br />
usually bushy rhizines, without cortex, therefore<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten ± felty rough and dull. Thallus broad<br />
lobed, ap., if occurring, at the ends <strong>of</strong> the lopes,<br />
flat to saddle-form. Lobes broad. Sp. 4-8celled,<br />
colorless to brown. Usually on soil and mosses,<br />
rarely directly on bark . Peltigera<br />
27* Underside <strong>of</strong> the thallus without raised vein net,<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten however rugose, at times with arched<br />
structures, which are divided by engraved<br />
depressions . 28<br />
28 Thallus underside bald, without rhizines<br />
(examine carefully!), without hairs, smooth to<br />
engraved or felty 29<br />
28* Thallus underside with distinct rhizines or<br />
densely hairy 31<br />
29 Thallus upper side divided by wide meshed<br />
reticulate ridges with ± oval to elongate<br />
depressions lying between them, light brown,<br />
olive-brown, or greenish-olive, greenish when<br />
moist, underside usually beige to pale brownish,<br />
the upper side pits corresponds to the underside<br />
by ± wrinkling “pits” leading to arches .<br />
Lobaria (pulm./lin.)<br />
29* Thallus upper side smooth to slightly wrinkled<br />
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