Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge
Details
Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge (1948)
Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge
Nomenclature
C.W.Dodge
C.W.Dodge
1948
ICN
species
Rhizocarpon candidum
Classification
Descriptions
Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge
Thallus thick, white, areolate-cracked, margins zonate, determinate, cracking radially, prothallus narrow to wide, black. Areolae to 1 mm diam., sometimes sorediate. Soralia to 0.5 mm diam., leaving white pits. Apothecia innate, disc black 0.1-0.2 mm diam. Hymenium 160 µm tall. Paraphyses slender, flexuous, branched and anastomosing, repeatedly branching above asci, apices moniliform, dark brown. Asci cylindrical 125-130 × 35 µm, 8-spored. Ascospores uniseriate, broad, ellipsoid 25-50 × 15-18 µm colourless at first becoming brownish with age, muriform.
Taxonomic concepts
Notes
taxonomic status
The taxon Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge (Dodge 1948: 114; Galloway 1985a: 504) is referable to Pertusaria.
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000