Lichens marins - Lecidella anomaloides (A. Massal.) Hertel & H. Kilias

Lecidella anomaloides (A. Massal.) Hertel & H. Kilias

Lecidella anomaloides (A. Massal.) Hertel & H. Kilias

Catillaria anomaloides (Massal.) Lettau

Lecidea pungens (Körb.) Nyl.

Lecidea anomaloides A. Massal.

Lecidea goniophila auct. pp.

Description

Thallus crustose, thin, more or less smooth and aeroled, greyish, greenish-gray, pale ochraceous dirty surface. Apothecia sessile, 0.5-0.8 mm in diameter, disc flat to weakly domed, shiny black, proper rim well developed and persistent, black. Utriform asci with 8 spores, 65-75 x 18-25 µm according to our measurements. Elliptical spores, simple, colorless, 9-15 x 7-8 µm according to the literature, 12-15 x 5-8 µm according to our measurements. In section the proper rim of the apothecia is brown. C-, K +/- yellow, KC-, Pd +/- yellow. Species found on acidic rocks in the shade and moist of vertical walls, especially coastal cliffs. Cf. Lecidella stigmatea which grows on the sunnier alkaline rocks and of which in section the proper edge of the apothecia is greenish.