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Baden-Württemberg - Lichens of Wales

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26* Sp. colorless 27<br />

27 Sp. 2- to multicellular cross-septate, ± fusiform .<br />

Toninia<br />

27* Sp. 1-celled. . GS Lecidea<br />

28 With apothecia 29<br />

28* Without ap. (an assortment <strong>of</strong> frequently sterile<br />

species) 32<br />

29 Ap. clearly stalked, brown, or rose-brown .<br />

Baeomyces<br />

29* Ap. not stalked 30<br />

30 Ap. without thalloid margin, biatorine<br />

GS Lecidea PT1<br />

30* Ap. with thalloid margin 31<br />

31 On acid soils in higher sites. Ap. brown-red,<br />

concave, then flat with a thick conspicuously<br />

granular margin, 1-6 mm. Sp. 1(2) celled, 16-32<br />

x 5-8 µm. Thallus ochre, gold- to greenishbrown,<br />

small squamulose. Squamules -1.5 mm,<br />

crenate, coalescing into one crust<br />

Psoroma hypnorum<br />

31* On calcareous soils. Ap. usually brownish<br />

occasionally pruinose. Sp. 1-celled. Thallus<br />

usually pale greenish or ± thickly white pruinose,<br />

squamulose to rosetted .<br />

GS Lecanora PT1: Squamarina<br />

32 Thallus clearly rosetted, lobed at the margin, the<br />

interior <strong>of</strong> ± continuous, coalescing squamules<br />

33<br />

32* Thallus squamulose throughout to small lobules,<br />

not rosetted and lobed . 35<br />

33 On lime-poor, acid soils, greenish-gray,<br />

sometimes brownish tinted . .<br />

Baeomyces placophyllus<br />

33* On lime-rich soil or lime-mosses 34<br />

34 Thallus P+ red, without ap. Squamules brown to<br />

pale greenish, not pruinose<br />

Cladonia pyxidata (pocillum)<br />

34* Thallus P- or medulla P+ yellow, usually with ±<br />

brown lecanorine ap. Squamules greenish-white<br />

or light yellowish-green, even slightly brown<br />

tinted green, usually ± thickly white pruinose<br />

Lecanora PT 1<br />

35 Squamules strongly convex, turgid to almost<br />

bladder-like Toninia<br />

35* Squamules flat to concave . 36<br />

36 Squamules, at lease when young, concave, leekgreen,<br />

white around the margin and inflated, -<br />

3(4) mm wide, usually numerous, on turf, peat,<br />

moist moss thatch, on acid subsoil, sometimes in<br />

association with small fungus caps with lamellae<br />

. Omphalina hudsoniana<br />

36* Squamules otherwise . 37<br />

37 Squamules firmly attached at the base, ± erect,<br />

pale greenish, green yellowish, or gray green,<br />

entire margin, crenate, or incised, crowded, <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

P+ red or yellow, with differentiated, usually<br />

whitish underside .. . Cladonia<br />

37* Squamules either ± decumbent or P- or other<br />

color; see for example Lecidea PT 1, Toninia, or<br />

Catapyrenium.<br />

38 Ap. orange-brown to rust colored, K+ deep red,<br />

convex biatorine. Thallus squamulose, bright<br />

greenish-gray to bright olive, on limestone<br />

Psora testacea<br />

38* Ap. not K+ deep red 39<br />

39 Sp. small (up to about 6µm), spherical to<br />

elongate, 1-celled, to very numerous per ascus 40<br />

39* Sp. commonly 8 per ascus, larger . 41<br />

40 Thallus areolate (areoles -0.6 mm), with radiating<br />

enlarged marginal areoles, bronze colored to<br />

almost black or bright gray to yellowish-ray, C+<br />

red, with black prothallus. Ap. black, sunken,<br />

even or uneven, warty-scared to furrowed,<br />

lecideine. Sp. spherical. Moist high alpine on<br />

silicate rock, or alpine Sporastatia<br />

40* Thallus squamulose, squamules over 0.6 mm,<br />

usually ± brown, or red-brown, with usually<br />

sunken to deep seated, red-brown, or brown to<br />

dark brown (rarely brown black) ap. Sp.<br />

ellipsoidal to elongate Acarospora<br />

41 Thallus with a definite yellow tint, yellowishgray,<br />

green-yellowish, or yellowish white . 42<br />

41* Thallus without yellowish tint . 43<br />

42 Ap. black, ± sunken and with thalloid margin.<br />

Sp. ± brown, 2-celled. Thallus somewhat lobed<br />

at the margin, sharply defined areolate in the<br />

interior. In higher places on silicate<br />

Dimelaena oreina<br />

42* Ap. usually brown to red-brown, sometimes<br />

pruinose, with thalloid margin. Spores colorless,<br />

1-celled . GS Lecanora PT 1<br />

43 Ap. without thalloid margin. Thallus squamulose<br />

. 44<br />

43* Ap. with thalloid margin, or without definite<br />

margin and sunken into the thallus. Thallus<br />

usually rosetted and effigurate (placoid), interior<br />

areolate to squamulose 48<br />

44 Sp. brown, 2-celled. Ap. black, lecideine.<br />

Thallus grayish to dark brown . Buellia badia<br />

44* Sp. colorless 45<br />

45 Sp. 2- to cross-septate multicellular. Ap. black or<br />

sometimes thickly white pruinose, lecideine .<br />

Toninia<br />

45* Sp. 1-celled . 46<br />

46 On silicate rock. Ap. black or brighter, lecideine<br />

or biatorine . GS Lecidea<br />

46* On calcareous rock. Ap. black, rarely slightly<br />

pruinose 47<br />

47 Squamules whitish, moderately convex to almost<br />

flat. Sp. 10-18 x 3-5 µm. Toninia tumidula<br />

47* Squamules ± brown, usually ± flat to uneven.<br />

Ap. 12-16 x 5-7 µm (if squamules bloated convex<br />

and sp. 10-20 x 3.5-6.5 µm, see Toninia tristis)<br />

. Lecidea lurida<br />

48 Sp. 2-celled, 10-18 x 3-4 µm. Thallus white, K-,<br />

marginal lobes -2.5 mm wide, flat, close to one<br />

another. Ap. black (rarely brown), sunken to<br />

depressed, -1.5 mm. . Solenopsora candicans<br />

51

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