Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
Details
Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg. (1896)
Nomenclature
Müll.Arg.
Müll.Arg.
1896
89
ICN
Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
species
Ramalea cochleata
Classification
Descriptions
Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
Primary thallus squamulose, squamules scattered to ± imbricate-crowded, terricolous. Squamules 0.2-2 mm wide and to 3.5 mm long, plane to subconvex, spathulate or cuneate, margins entire or minutelycrenulate or occasionally ± bifurcate, ± ascending, not noticeably thickened. Upper surface pale yellow-green to olivaceous or brownish, smooth, matt, minutely maculate (×10 lens). Lower surface white, arachnoid. Pseudopodetia 2-8(-10) mm tall, concolorous with squamules or paler, ± minutely maculate, arising from margins of squamules, 0.1-0.5 mm diam. at base and there ± terete, expanding above to 1-2 mm diam., fissured-clathrate towards apices, exposing white medullary hyphae. Apothecia terminal, clustered-peltate, 0.05-0.3(-0.8) mm diam., disc round to irregular, plane to subconvex, brown-pink, sometimes ± white-pruinose, margins entire to crenulate, paler than disc, persistent. Ascospores simple, 6-9 × 3-4 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K-, KC+, yellow; medulla K-, C-, Pd-. Usnic acid.
Taxonomic concepts
Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 November 2010