Caloplaca dakotensis Wetmore

Mycologia 86, 6: 823 (1995) [1994].

 

 

Type locality: USA, North Dakota, on bark of conifer, Wetmore 44946 (MIN - holotype).

Thallus: crustose, areolate to sub-squamulose, without elongated lobes; prothallus absent; surface gray, smooth, without asexual propagules; cortex cellular, thin, without granules. Apothecia adnate, 0.5-0.8 mm in diam., lecanorine; disc brown, flat, epruinose; margin persistent, flush; thalline margin present, concolorous with thallus; proper margin not visible; parathecium cellular (paraplectenchymatous) including exciple below hypothecium; epihymenium brown, K-, H-, 10%N-, cN-, C-; hymenium hyaline, 60-75 µm tall; paraphyses with 1-2 tip cells swollen, with few branches or with some branching; subhymenium hyaline. Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Ascospores hyaline, 2 locules, ellipsoid, 10-12.5 x 5.5-7 µm, isthmus 4-5.5 µm, spore end wall thin. Pycnidia not observed (Nash et al. 2001: xx).

Photobiont: Green alga.

Chemistry: Apothecial margin K-, H-, 10% N-, cN-, C-; thallus K-, H-, 10%N-, cN-, C- (Nash et al. 2001: xx).

Ecology: On bark.

Distribution type: Data lacking.

Taxonomy: Data lacking.

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