Lecidea leptocarpa Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt.
Details
Lecidea leptocarpa Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt. (1860 [1859])
Nomenclature
Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt.
C.Bab. & Mitt.
1860
1859
352
ICN
Lecidea leptocarpa Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt.
species
Lecidea leptocarpa
Classification
Descriptions
Lecidea leptocarpa Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt.
Thallus greyish or bluish-grey to whitish, in irregular patches 0.5-2(-3) cm diam., thick, chinky, areolate-cracked, areolae angular, complicate, ± subconvex or flat, surface matt, rather scabrid-roughened to fibrous, saxicolous. Apothecia prominent, round to irregular, scattered, solitary or 2-3-confluent and deformed through mutual pressure, disc matt, black, epruinose, often ± etched, plane to subconvex 0.5-1.2 mm diam., ± innate, not raised above thallus surface, margins black, raised, entire to crenulate. Epithecium brown-black, granular, 4-10(-21) µm thick. Paraphyses dense, simple, slightly thickened and brownish at apices. Exciple carbonised on outer wall or completely carbonised. Hymenium yellow-brown, 60-90 µm tall. Hypothecium dark yellow-brown or black, 40-55 µm thick. Ascospores ellipsoid, 9-14 × 5-6 µm.
Taxonomic concepts
Lecidea leptocarpa Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt.
Lecidea leptocarpa Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt.
Lecidea leptocarpa Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt.
Lecidea leptocarpa Nyl. ex C.Bab. & Mitt.
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
8 April 2010