Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
138 BRIAN JOHN COPPINS<br />
altitudes <strong>of</strong> c. 3400-3900 m in <strong>the</strong> Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado by Anderson<br />
(1964). M. incrassata has been collected on Kerguelen Island in <strong>the</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn Indian Ocean<br />
(48°30'S) and is so far <strong>the</strong> only arctic or arctic-alpine Micarea known to have a bipolar<br />
distribution.<br />
Exsiccata: Fellman Lich. Arct. 164 (BM ex K, H, H-NYL 16567), 166 (BM ex K, H).<br />
17. Micarea intrusa (Th. Fr.) Coppins & Killias, comb. nov.<br />
(Figs 17, 55; Map 22)<br />
Lecidea intrusa Th. Fr. in Bot. Notiser 1867: 152 (1867). - Catillaria intrusa (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr., Lich. Scand.<br />
2: 579 (1874). - Lecidiopsis intrusa (Th. Fr.) Zopf in Hedwigia 35: 338 (1896). - Conida intrusa (Th. Fr.)<br />
Sacc, Syll. Fung. 18: 187 (1906). Type: Finland, Tavastia australis, Mustiala, 1867, A. Kullhem (UPS-<br />
holotype!).<br />
Lecidea aphanoides Nyl. in Flora, Jena 51: 476 (1868). Type: Scotland, South Aberdeenshire, Braemar,<br />
'Craig Guie', viii 1868, J. M. Crombie (H-NYL 20237 - holotype!); supposed isotype material in BM<br />
appears to be all Scoliciosporum umbrinum (Ach.) Arnold.<br />
Lecidea melaphana Nyl. in Flora, Jena 52: 83 (1869). Type: Scotland, South Aberdeenshire, Braemar,<br />
'Craig Guie', viii 1868, J. M. Crombie (BM - isotype!).<br />
Lecidea contrusa Vainio in Medd. Soc. Fauna Fl. fenn. 10: 29 (1883); nom. illeg. (Art. 63).<br />
Thallus occasionally effuse but more <strong>of</strong>ten forming small patches (to c. 1 cm diam) amongst<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r lichens, irregularly granular-verrucose and <strong>of</strong>ten rimose, sometimes forming discrete<br />
areolae (c. 0- 1-0-3 mm diam) which may coalesce to form 'composite areolae' up to c. 1 mm<br />
diam and 0-5 mm tall. Thallus dark olive-grey or brownish grey; surface matt, and usually scurfy<br />
due to invasion <strong>of</strong> free-living algae. In section, sometimes with a hyaline amorphous covering<br />
layer up to 12 /xm thick but this is usually disrupted by invading algae ; walls <strong>of</strong> uppermost hyphae<br />
sometimes thickened with olive-green pigment, K-, HNO3-I- red; phycobiont layer c. 70^100<br />
mm thick, above a ± distinct hyaline medulla. Phycobiont not micareoid; cells globose, large,<br />
7-21 /xm diam, with thick hyaline walls 1-2 /xm thick, each cell deeply penetrated by a<br />
haustorium <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mycobiont (Fig. 55).<br />
Apo<strong>the</strong>cia numerous, immarginate, convex, adnate, black, or slightly glossy when young,<br />
0-14-0-4 mm diam. Hymenium 40-50 /xm tall; upper (c. 20 /x,m) part aeruginose-green, K-,<br />
HNOs-t- red; remaining (lower) part ± hyaline. Asci clavate, 35-45x14-15 /xm; cytoplasm <strong>of</strong><br />
asci and spores sometimes with an orange, K+ purple-red pigment. Spores elhpsoid or<br />
ovoid-ellipsoid, occasionally oblong-ellipsoid or oblong fusiform and <strong>the</strong>n sometimes slightly<br />
curved, simple or 1-septate and septum <strong>of</strong>ten eccentric, rarely 3-septate (7-)9-14(-17)x<br />
(4-)4-5-5-5(-6) /am. Paraphyses numerous, branched and anastomosing, c. l-l-5(-l-7) /xm<br />
wide; apices not swollen or pigmented (green pigment confined to <strong>the</strong> surrounding gel-matrix).<br />
Hypo<strong>the</strong>cium c. 110-200 /u,m tall, hyaline or with very faint olivaceous brown tinge in places.<br />
Fig. 55 Micarea intrusa: a phycobiont cell penetrated by a haustorium <strong>of</strong> an associated mycobiont hypha.<br />
Scale = 10 /u,m.