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Baden-Württemberg - Lichens of Wales

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Simple to sparsely branched. Sp. (13)18-26 x<br />

6.5-10(12) µm Eopyrenula leucoplaca<br />

29* Sp. 2 celled, <strong>of</strong>ten one cell somewhat larger.<br />

Thallus commonly indefinite, without algae or<br />

algae only loosely associated. Per. black.<br />

Paraph. Branched and reticulate<br />

.Mycomicrothelia<br />

30 On silicate rock. Thallus black, finely cracked to<br />

finely areolate. Per. black, flattened<br />

hemispherical protruding, flattened above. Sp.<br />

(2-)4 celled or rarely also with 1-2(4)<br />

longitudinal walls, ± smooth, with perispore, 13-<br />

21 x 6-11 µm Lichenothelia (scopularia)<br />

30* On calcareous rock. Sp. 25-36 x 12-18 µm,<br />

warty, 2 celled, ± egg-shaped. Per. sunken, when<br />

sessile, strongly flattened above. Fungus <strong>of</strong><br />

pyrenocarpic lichens with whitish to gray-reddish<br />

or endolithic thallus Polycoccum marmoratum<br />

(Krempelh.) Hawksw.<br />

31 Sp. with about 20 septa, acicular, at best 50 µm<br />

long. Per. pale yellowish to pale rose or<br />

brownish (very light when moist). Paraph.<br />

Unbranched, permanent. Thallus with<br />

Trentepohlia. In higher sites. Belonia<br />

31* Sp. with much fewer septa, if acicular, then per.<br />

black . 32<br />

32 Per. red-brown to yellow-brown or rose. 33<br />

32* Per. black, at times pruinose and ± gray 35<br />

33 Thallus with coccoid green algae, light greenish,<br />

or light yellowish, or elongated, cylindric to<br />

branched, minute granules, also sometimes<br />

sorediate. Per. light brown to orange-brown, -0.4<br />

mm, with cellular, 30-80 µm thick light exc.,<br />

without paraph. Sp. 4-5(6) celled, 13-21 x 4.5-6<br />

µm. Almost only on elder, maple, or elm<br />

.Macentina stigonemoides<br />

33* Thallus with Trentepohlia, not consisting <strong>of</strong><br />

cylindric to branched light green granules.<br />

Paraph. permanent 34<br />

34 Sp. to 8 per ascus, 4-8 celled, fusiform. Porina<br />

34* Sp. to much more than 8 in (at most 150 µm)<br />

long asci, 4 celled, 12-18 x 5-6 µm. Per. -0.6<br />

mm, pale reddish to brown. Paraph. Simple.<br />

Thallus gray-rose to (in the herbarium) graygreenish<br />

or lighter. Thelopsis (rubella)<br />

35 On rock, soil, or mosses 36<br />

35* On bark . 40<br />

36 Sp. fusiform to narrowly fusiform (to almost<br />

acicular), at best 4 celled. Paraph. Permanent 37<br />

36* Sp. ellipsoidal, 2-4 celled, if fusiform, then 2<br />

celled. Paraph. Permanent or lacking in ripe per<br />

38<br />

37 Per. on white rock-dwelling thallus with green<br />

algae and dispersed soralia (Porpidia<br />

glaucophaea), black, -0.6 mm. Sp. 25-38 x 3-5<br />

µm, mostly 4-5 celled. Paraph. branched.<br />

Parasymbiont. Rare: southern Black Forest and<br />

Vosges Mountains. Sagediopsis barbara<br />

(Th.Fr.) R. Sant. &Triebel (=gongylia<br />

nadvornikii Servit)<br />

37* Thallus without soralia, with Trentepohlia. On<br />

rock, or mosses. Sp. fusiform, 4-8 celled.<br />

Paraph. branched or unbranched . GS Porina<br />

38 With globose green algae in the thallus. Hym. I+<br />

orange to red. Paraph. lacking (but periphyses<br />

occurring in the ostiole region). Per. with or<br />

without involucre. Sp. 2 to rarely 4 celled,<br />

septum usually in the middle. Thelidium<br />

(Verrucaria bryoctona and Pyrenocollema spp.<br />

also commonly have 2 celled sp.)<br />

38* With Trentepohlia or blue-green algae.<br />

Paraph. occurring. Sp. 2 celled 39<br />

39 Sp. with very thick dividing wall, 1 ranked in the<br />

ascus ( s.139), with (<strong>of</strong>ten finely warty)<br />

perispore, with rounded ends, with 2 equal cells.<br />

Per. 0.5-1(1.5) mm. Ascus cylindrical. Paraph.<br />

sparsely branched or bundled. Thallus with<br />

Trentepohlia, <strong>of</strong>ten in the substrate<br />

GS Arthopyrenia: Acrocordia<br />

39* Sp. with the thicker walls and not 1 ranked, with<br />

or without a very thin smooth perispore, usually<br />

2 unequal cells, in species <strong>of</strong> this hemisphere -24<br />

x 7 µm, sometimes even larger. Per. only -0.3<br />

mm, always without an involucre. Hym. I-. Asci<br />

ventricose to almost cylindrical. Paraph. richly<br />

branched and reticulate. With blue-green algae<br />

or Trentepohlia in the thallus (cells yellowish,<br />

orange or blue-green, in P. saxicola yellowish to<br />

orange) GS Arthopyrenia: Pyrenocollema<br />

40 Sp. at times curved or ± spiraled, narrowly<br />

fusiform, acicular, worm-lake, or thread-like, -4<br />

µm wide, 2 to 4 celled. Paraph. branched and<br />

reticulate bound, ± permanent. Per. black, -0.4<br />

mm. Without algae or the algae only loosely<br />

associated. Leptorhaphis<br />

40* Sp. straight, fusiform to ellipsoidal 41<br />

41 Sp. 2 celled, ± ellipsoidal . GS Arthopyrenia<br />

41* Sp. with at least 4 cells . 42<br />

42 Asci clearly thickened above. Paraph. ±<br />

branched, permanent or soon swelling and<br />

scarcely recognizable. Sp. ellipsoidal to<br />

fusiform. Thallus scarcely recognizable or<br />

definite. Without algae or with Trentepohlia .<br />

GS Arthopyrenia<br />

42* Asci thin walled, even the apex scarcely thicker.<br />

Paraph. approaching unbranched, permanent.<br />

Per. 0.2-1 mm. Sp. fusiform, 4-8 celled. Thallus,<br />

as a rule, clearly developed, with Trentepohlia .<br />

. GS Porina<br />

Genus Key VI: Streak and Fleck Fruiting <strong>Lichens</strong><br />

1 Sp. 1 celled, colorless. Thallus with pure green<br />

algae 2<br />

1* Sp. 2 to multicellular, colorless or colored.<br />

Thallus usually with Trentepohlia algae, <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

golden brown to orange yellow at the crevices. . 4<br />

2 On rock. Thallus K+ red. Ap. streaked, with<br />

crack-formed disks. Receptacle black brown<br />

Lithographa tesserata<br />

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