Catillaria melanotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
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Catillaria melanotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univers. 4, 57 (1926)
Nomenclature
(Nyl.) Zahlbr.
Nyl.
Zahlbr.
1926
57
ICN
species
Catillaria melanotropa
Classification
Descriptions
Catillaria melanotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
Thallus creamy, whitish or pale greenish, thin or thick, scattered or ± continuous, verrucose-rimose to ± areolate to ± furfuraceous, uneven-verrucose, shining or matt, in irregular patches 1-3(-8) cm diam., with or without a thin, black, wavy prothallus at margins, corticolous. Apothecia sessile, constricted at base, solitary or 1-3-confluent, plane to convex, 0.1-1.0 mm diam., disc brownish-black to reddish-brown, with or without a distinct blue-white pruina, margins prominent, swollen, entire to subcrenulate, persistent, blackened concolorous with disc in exposed forms, or more often reddish-brown, translucent. Epithecium black or olive-brown, 10-13 µm thick. Hymenium colourless 60-75 µm tall. Hypothecium olive-greenish or brownish, 40-50 µm thick. Asci I+ blue. Ascospores biseriate oval or broadly ellipsoid with pointed or rounded ends (13.5-)15-19(-22) × 6-7(-9) µm, straight or slightly curved and ± fabiform.
Taxonomic concepts
Catillaria melanotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
Catillaria melanotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
Catillaria melanotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
Catillaria melanotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
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Names_Plants
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