34 CHAPTER 4 RESULTS 4.1 Lichen diversity Epiphytic lichens ...
34 CHAPTER 4 RESULTS 4.1 Lichen diversity Epiphytic lichens ...
34 CHAPTER 4 RESULTS 4.1 Lichen diversity Epiphytic lichens ...
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LEPTOGIUM (Ach.) Gray<br />
Thallus foliose, gelatinous, blue-grey to brown or blackish, not layer in<br />
section. Photobiont blue-green algae: Nostoc. Upper cortex smooth to wrinkled or<br />
gidged, rarely arachnoid. Lower cortex smooth, arachnoid or hairy, or group of white<br />
rhizines. Isidia present. Ascocarp apothecia, sessile, mainly laminal, disc concave to<br />
flat. Hymenium colourless, I+ blue. Aci 4-8-spored, clavate. Ascospores ellipsoid,<br />
ovoid or fusiform, septate, colourless, submuriform to muriform.<br />
Leptogium sp.1<br />
Leptogium sp.2<br />
Figure 4.8 Leptogium spp., scale bar = 5 mm<br />
Family CROCYNIACEAE<br />
CROCYNIA Nyl.<br />
Thallus squamulose, densely matted hyphae, often a felt-like, hypothallus,<br />
with raised tips 0.5-2 mm long, without cortex. Photobiont green algae. Ascocarps<br />
apothecia, without thalline margin, disc-like, sessile, usually grey to black.<br />
Hymenium exposed. Asci 3-8 spored. Ascospores colourless, without septa.