Biology:Aspicilia cinerea
| Aspicilia cinerea | |
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| Aspicilia cinerea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Pertusariales |
| Family: | Megasporaceae |
| Genus: | Aspicilia |
| Species: | A. cinerea
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| Aspicilia cinerea (L.) Körb. (1855)
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Aspicilia cinerea (cinder lichen) is a gray to almost white, 1.5–15 cm (0.59–5.91 in) wide, crustose areolate lichen with large apothecia that mostly grows on rock in the mountains.[1][2]:224 It grows in variable forms, from having a continuous surface to being areolate.[2]:224 It grows in Eurasia, and North America on siliceous rock, schist or igneous rock in habitats exposed to sunlight, also rarely on calciferous rock.[1] It is common in Arizona, and rare in California and Baja California at elevations of 1,700 to 3,300 metres (5,600 to 10,800 ft).[1]
Flat to almost convex areoles are angular to irregular, and 0.2–2 mm in diameter.[1] They are contiguous but clearly separated by well defined cracks.[1] It usually lacks a prothallus.[1] It may be rimose toward the outer edges.[1] Each areole has 1–10, round to angular or irregular, 0.1–1.6 mm apothecia that may be confluent when numerous.[1] Apothecia have usually black concave discs, with exciple margins of thallus tissue.[1] Asci are club shaped (clavate), with 8 ellipsoid ascospores.[1]
Lichen spot tests on the cortex and medulla are K+ red, KC−, P+ yellow[2]:224 or P+ orange,[1] with the medulla sometimes testing K+ yellow and P+ orange.[2]:224 Secondary metabolites include norstictic acid and often connorstictic acid in traces, and more rarely hyposalazinic acid.[1]
The photobiont is a chlorococcoid.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 3., Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN:978-0-300-19500-2
Wikidata ☰ Q10509927 entry
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