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Lecanora compallens  Herk & Aptroot

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Family: LECANORACEAE

Habitat: Ubiquitous

Description

   Thallus crustose relatively thick, continuous and more or less immersed, whitish-glaucous, covered with numerous whitish to glaucous warts 0.1-0.2 mm in diameter at the base, being covered with punctiform soralia becoming confluent to form a layer of granular soredia covering almost the entire thallus, greenish-yellow with "mint-green" or bluish-green zones. Apothecia unknown. Photobiont: Trebouxia. Thallus: C-, K-, KC-, P-, UV-; soredia: C-, K+ dirty yellowish, P-, UV- (wet) or pale orange UV+ (dry), K/UV+ ochre-orange faint. Species growing on the bark of well-exposed sides of isolated trees or trees, especially in towns.

N.B. Quite variable species and very diversely interpreted by the authors.

N.B. Lecanora strobilina is a closely related species with identical chemistry but it is smaller and has apothecia.

N.B. Lecanora expallens is very similar and differs only by its chemistry: C+ yellow-orange, to the point that some authors combine the two species!







Lecanora compallens Beg-Meil 1
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Lecanora compallens Beg-Meil 2
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Lecanora compallens Beg-Meil 3
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora compallens Crozon 1
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora compallens Crozon 2
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora compallens Crozon 3
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Lecanora compallens Crozon 4
Bernard BOUFFINIER



Lecanora compallens Crozon 5
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Lecanora compallens Crozon 6
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Lecanora compallens Crozon 7
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Lecanora compallens Crozon 8
Bernard BOUFFINIER



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