Calicium adspersum Pers.
Details
Calicium adspersum Pers., Icon. Descr. Fung. 59 (1800)
Calicium adspersum Pers.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Only Calcicium adspersum subsp. australe is in New Zeaalnd (Galloway 2007)
Nomenclature
Pers.
Pers.
1800
59
ICN
Calicium adspersum Pers.
species
Calicium adspersum
Classification
Descriptions
Calicium adspersum Pers.
Thallus immersed, to verrucose, grey to brownish. Apothecia epruinose or with a dense, citrine yellow pruina on lower side of capitulum. Mazaedium with a faint to strong yellow pruina. Apothecia 0.6-1.9 mm high, very short-stalked and robust or fairly slender with long stalks, 3-20 times as high as width of stalk. All parts of apothecia, except a very thin gelatinous sheet surrounding stalk, I-. Capitulum broadly lenticular, 0.3-0.6 mm diam. Excipulum of weakly anticlinally arranged, slightly elongated, heavily sclerotized hyphae. Hypothecium dark brown, convex. Stalk 0.1-0.3 mm diam., of densely intertwined, dark brown, sclerotized hyphae, or with a pale, not sclerotized central and outer part. The outermost layer is completely translucent, gelatinous and reacts faintly I+ blue. Asci cylindrical with uniseriate spores, or clavate with biseriate spores. Cylindrical asci 34-37 × 3.5-4.5 µm. Ascospores 9-16 × 4-6.5 µm, with distinctive ornamentation of spirally arranged ridges. Chemistry: The yellow pruina of the apothecia consists of vulpinic acid and the thallus contains norstictic acid. Thallus K+ red, Pd+ yellow to orange, C-.
Taxonomic concepts
Metadata
3cab9097-ec33-4a4e-8557-4835b18b7ba5
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 April 2020