Pertusaria stenhammarii Hellb.

K. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh., 22: 463, 1866.
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Description: Thallus crustose, mostly endosubstratic, continuous to faintly rimose, grey to greenish grey, covered with fruiting warts. Apothecia lecanorine, immersed in 0.2-1.2 mm wide thalline warts, 1(-2) per wart, with an expanded, regularly rounded, black but usually grey-pruinose, 0.3-0.8 mm wide disc and a thin, smooth thalline margin. Epithecium yellowish to dark brown, K+ violet; hymenium colourless; paraphyses lax, branched and anastomosing; hypothecium yellowish. Asci (1-)2(-3)-spored, broadly cylindrical, the apex with a broad ocular chamber, the outer sheath K/I+ blue, otherwise K/I-, with an inner extensible layer, Pertusaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid to fusiform, 60-120 x 30-70 µm, the wall 1-layered, 2-16 µm thick, smooth, the apices up to 30 µm thick. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: extremely rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent

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Curtis Randall Björk CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley Date: 2012-04-03 On Alnus incana trunk in swamp forest


Erichsen C.F.E. 1936. Pertusariaceae. - In: Dr. L. Rabenhorsts Kryptogamenflora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Bd. IX, Abt. 5, T. 1. Akad. Verlagsges., Leipzig, pp. 321-512, 513-728. - Public Domain


Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley Date: 2012-04-03 On Alnus incana trunk in swamp forest