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LICHEN GENUS MICAREA IN EUROPE 189 when tuberculate. Hymenium 35-45 /xm tall, dilute olivaceous or dilute olive-brown, K+ violet: pigment confined to gel-matrix. Asci clavate, 30-40x9-5-12 jxm. Spores ± acicular or rodshaped, curved or ± straight, l-7(-ll)-septate, 14^35(-43)xl-8-2-5(-3) y,m. Paraphyses numerous, branched, sometimes anastomosing, 0-8-1 /xm wide, sometimes widening to 1-5 /am towards their apices; apical walls hyaline. Hypothecium 60-100 jxm tall, hyaline, or dilute olivaceous and then Kf+ violet; hyphae hyaline, 1-2 ^im wide, interwoven or some ± vertically orientated in the upper part; intermixed with short-celled ascogenous hyphae, c. 2-4 ^im wide. Excipulum indistinct, evident in sections as a narrow, reflexed, non-amyloid lateral border to the hymenium, hyaline or pale olivaceous (then K+ violet), varying from paler to darker than the hymenium; hyphae hyahne, radiating branched and anastomosing, c. 1 /xm wide. Pycnidia frequent but inconspicuous, immersed within areolae, or emergent to sessile, whitish to grey-black; walls dull olivaceous (pigment often more intense around the ostioles), K+ violet. Pycnidia of two types: (a) 60-120 /am diam, immersed, or emergent with gaping ostioles; conidia {mesoconidia) ± cylindrical to fusiform, 4-5-6xl-2-l-5 /xm; (b) 30-40 /Ltm diam, immersed to sessile, but ostioles not gaping; conidia (microconidia) short-cylindrical, 3-8-4-8x0-8-l/xm. Chemistry: Thallus C— , K— , PD— ; sections of thallus and apothecia C- (but olivaceous parts C-l- violet due to pigment); t.l.c: no substances detected. Observations: Micarea synotheoides is characterized by its ± acicular or rod-shaped spores, K-l- violet hymenium, and olivaceous thallus which is j. gelaimous when wet. M. globulosella is very similar, but differs in having a thallus of whitish or grey, somewhat larger areolae containing gyrophoric acid. M. nitschkeana differs in the same ways, and in addition has shorter (rarely over 17 jxm) spores and longer microconidia. M. globulosella and M. synotheoides have been confused with Bacidia beckhausii (see p. 196) which has similar spores, pigmentation and paraphyses, but can be distinguished by its large-celled (c. 8-14 fxm diam) phycobiont, excipulum of coherent (in K) hyphae, smaller conidia (one type only, c. 2-8-3-5X 1-1-4 /xm), often pruinose apothecia, and usual occurrence on less acidic bark (especially of Acer, Fraxinus, Populus, and Ulmus), although it does occasionally occur on Quercus trunks and more rarely on lignum. Of the four Japanese specimens, two are on bark and two (type material) are on lignum. They all have rather siiprt spores (14-26 /xm), but appear to agree in most other respects with collections from Britain and the Atlantic islands. Unfortunately I was unable to find mesoconidia in the Japanese specimens. For the time being, I consider the Japanese and Atlantic populations as conspecific, especially as the British collections exhibit considerable variation in spore septation and length. Further collections from Japan are required to finally establish the relationship between the two populations. Habitat and distribution: M. synotheoides is an oceanic species mostly found in wooded valleys on bark or over bryophytes, on the trunks of, for example, Alnus, Betula, Quercus, Larix, Pinus, and Pseudotsuga, in communities in, or related to, the Parmelion laevigatae alliance. British collections include the following associated lichens: Bryoria fuscescens, Chrysothrix candelaris, Cladonia coniocraea, C. squamosa, Haematomma elatinum, Hypogymnia physodes, Lecanactis abietina, Lecidea icmalea, Micarea alabastrites, M. cinerea, M. peliocarpa, M. stipitata, Mycoblastus sterilis, Ochrolechia androgyna, Parmelia saxatilis, Pertusaria amara, Platismatia glauca, Sphaerophorus globosus, Trapelia corticola in ed., and Usnea subftoridana. The single British collection on lignum {Coppins 2299) was on a rotting trunk of Pinus. In the Canary Islands it occurs on Erica arborea in a photophobus and hydrophilic community composed of crustose lichens with Atlantic distributions (Topham & Walker, loc. cit.). In the Azores it occurs in a more or less identical community on Cryptomeria. Apart from the type locality in Japan, it is known only from western Britain, the Azores, and the Canary Islands (Tenerife). It should be sought for in suitable habitats in other oceanic parts of Europe (e.g. south-west Norway, Bretagne, the Pyrenees, and Portugal).
190 BRIAN JOHN COPPINS Map 24 Micarea globulosella ® 1950 onwards + Micarea synotheoides # 1950 onwards O Before 1950 43. Micarea ternaria (Nyl.) Vezda (Figs 32B, 52; Map 25) Sched. Lich. Sel. Exsicc. 858 (1970). - Lecidea sabuletorum f. ternaria Nyl. in Not. Sallsk Fauna Fl. fenn. Forhandl. 8: 151 (1866). - Lecidea ternaria (Nyl.) Nyl. in Flora, Jena 60: 232 (1877). Type: USSR, Lapponia murmanica, Kola Peninsula, 'Olenji', 1861, N. I. Fellman (H-NYL 18682 -holotype! [t.l.c: no substances]). Thallus effuse, muscicolous, composed of scattered to confluent, convex to irregularly subglobose areolae [? or saxicolous and obsolete -see 'observations']. -Areolae cream-white to ash-grey, c. 80-300 /xm diam; in section with hyahne amorphous covering layer c. 7-10 /xm tall, and outermost hyphae with greenish (K— , HNO3-I- red) walls. Phycobiont micareoid, cells c. 4—7)Ltm diam. Apothecia numerous, black, matt or slightly glossy, 0-15-1 mm diam; at first (below 0-3 mm diam) ± globose or turbinate, later expanding to become broadly convex and ± adnate, sometimes faintly marginate. Hymenium c. 60-70 /xm tall, merging imperceptibly into the hypothecium; upper c. 10-15 ixm (epithecium) dark aeruginose-green, K-, HNO3+ purplered; remaining (lower) part ± hyaline with dilute green vertical streaks. Asci clavate. Spores fusiform, sometimes slightly curved, (0-)l-3-septate, 13-22(-24)x 3-5-5 /am. Paraphyses numerous, sparingly branched below but richly branched in epithecium, often anastomosing, c. 1-1-8 /Am wide; apices often slightly incrassate and surrounded by dense pigment, and up to 3 fxm wide. Hypothecium up to 380 /am tall; upper third to half, dilute olivaceous or dilute dull
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