Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll. Arg.
Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève, 16: 360, 1862. Basionym: Calicium chlorellum Ach. - Meth. Lich.: 89, 1803.
Synonyms: Calicium phaeocephalum var. flavum Harm.; Chaenotheca carthusiae (Harm.) Lettau; Chaenotheca suzai Nádv.
Description: Thallus crustose, usually well-developed and episubstratic, ecorticate, verrucose to minutely granular, green to grey-green. Apothecia short-stalked, pin-like, shining black but covered in a bright yellow pruina at least in the upper part of stalk and the lower side of capitulum. Stalk 0.7-1 mm high, 0.05-0.08 mm thick, of periclinally arranged, medium brown hyphae. Capitulum broadly obovoid to lenticular, with a more or less well-developed excipulum of periclinally arranged hyphae, continuous with the stalk tissue. Mazaedium well-developed, brown; hypothecium medium brown, with a strongly convex upper surface. Asci cylindrical, clearly stalked, formed singly, dissolving early, with uniseriately arranged ascospores. Ascospores 1-celled, brown to pale brown, globose to broadly ellipsoid, 4.5-9 x 3-4 µm, the wall with a rough ornamentation of irregular cracks. Photobiont chlorococcoid, with rectangular cells (Stichococcus) or rarely trebouxioid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances; yellow pruina consisting of vulpinic acid.
					Growth form: Crustose
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
In underhangs rarely wetted by rain
		Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: absent
	
					
        
          
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Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley Date: 2014-05-04 Corticolous, trunk of large Populus trichocarpa in humid old-growth forest

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZR196], Bohemia merid., montes Šumava, distr. Klatrovy, Modrava, in monte "Smrkový vrch", 1100 m. Ad corticem arborum (Acer pseudoplatanus). Leg. Z. Palice & A. Vezda. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 196.
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    
				
			
                        
Growth form: Crustose
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
In underhangs rarely wetted by rain
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: absent
pH of the substrata:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 
Solar irradiation:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 
Aridity:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 
Eutrophication:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 
Poleotolerance:
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 
Altitudinal distribution:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 
Rarity
      
      absent
    
    
    
      
      extremely rare
    
    
    
      
      very rare
    
    
    
      
      rare
    
    
    
      
      rather rare
    
    
    
      
      rather common
    
    
    
      
      common
    
    
    
      
      very common
    
    
    
      
      extremely common
    
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Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley Date: 2014-05-04 Corticolous, trunk of large Populus trichocarpa in humid old-growth forest






 
                                              
                                              
                                              
                                             