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Lecanora expallens Ach.

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Family: LECANORACEAE

Habitat: Ubiquitous

Description

    Thallus crustose 5-10 cm across, granular, more or less cracked, yellowish-gray, yellowish-green, greyish-green in dry weather and in well-lit areas but "mint" green, bluish-green in areas in the shade, covered with yellowish farinose soralia in dry weather giving green soredia in the shade and in humid weather which gives an areolate appearance to the thallus, grayish prothallus sometimes hardly visible. Species most often sterile, if not small and more or less aborted apothecia, sessile, 0.4-1 mm in diameter, disc convex, pinkish, pinkish yellow, pale pinkish brown, soredate margin quickly excluded. Spores simple, elliptical, 10-16 x 4-8 µm. Photobiont: Trebouxia. C+ yellow-orange to dark orange (sometimes faint), K+ yellow (sometimes pale), KC+ orange, P-, UV+ orange, K/UV+ mint ice-cream green and gold yellow when dry. Fairly common species occurring on tree bark in non-humid and rather dry areas (edge ​​or alignment trees), rare on bare wood (but see Lecanora expallens forme lignicole) and on rocks.

Cf. Pyrrhospora quernea also KC+ orange, C+ bright orange but more yellow-ochraceous and never "mint" green and with a blackish prothallus and sometimes fertile with dark red-brown apothecia and Lecanora barkmaniana with grayish thallus (C-, K+ yellow, P+ yellow or P-).
 
Cf. Lecanora compallens is very similar and only differs in its chemistry: C-, K-, to the point that some authors group the two species together!
 
Cf.Lecanora jamesii is C-, K-, P-.
 
Cf. Lecanora alboflavida with a more yellow-brown bordered thallus, more vivid color reactions (C+ orange, K+ yellow) and a more blackish hypothallus.






Lecanora expallens Telgruc-sur-mer 1
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Telgruc-sur-mer 2
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Hanvec 1
Joël QUERELLOU



Lecanora expallens Hanvec 2
Joël QUERELLOU



Lecanora expallens Hanvec 3
Joël QUERELLOU



Lecanora expallens Loperhet 1
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Loperhet 2
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Loperhet 3
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Telgruc-sur-mer 3
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Telgruc-sur-mer 4
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Telgruc-sur-mer 5
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Telgruc-sur-mer 6
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Telgruc-sur-mer 7
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Telgruc-sur-mer 8
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Le Guern 1
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Le Guern 2
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens UV Le Guern 3
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Landevennec 2
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Landevennec 1
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Landevennec 3
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora expallens Landevennec 4
Bernard BOUFFINIER



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