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Enchylium tenax

Overview
PNW Range:
  West sideUncommon
  East sideCommon
  Immediate coastRare
  Alpine or subalpineUncommon
Habitat: Open to partially shaded, sagebrush steppe, rock outcrop areas, and disturbed sites.
Substrate: Soil, calcareous.
Comments:
Synonymy: Collema tenax
Enchylium tenax - Habit
Habit
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Enchylium tenax - Habit
Habit
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Enchylium tenax - Apothecia
Apothecia
by B. McCune
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Enchylium tenax - Spores
Spores
by B. McCune
4/6
Enchylium tenax - Exciple
Exciple
by B. McCune
5/6
Enchylium tenax - Habit
Habit
by B. McCune
6/6
Scale: Bar=1mm unless noted
Growth Form
Fruticose: Never
Foliose: Almost always
Crustose: Never
Appressed Foliose: Almost always
Fluffy Foliose or Strappy: Never
Dangling Hair: Never
Erect Hair: Never
Appressed Hair: Never
Stalks With Squamules: Never
Stalks: Never
Squamules: Sometimes
Single Holdfast: Never
Dangling Nets: Never

Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Dark Gray: Rarely
   Black: Almost always
   Olive Black: Sometimes
   Olive Brown: Rarely
   Olive Green: Rarely
Upper Surface Tomentose: Never
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid: Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges: Never
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae: Never
   Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity: Never
Cilia on Margins: Never
Lower Surface (Foliose)
Lower Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Dark Gray: Rarely
   Black: Almost always
Veined Below: Never
Rhizinate Below: Never
Tomentose Below: Never
Cyphellae: Never
Pseudocyphellae Below: Never
Papillae Below: Never

Interior
Inside (Medulla) Yellow or Orange: Never
Central Cord: Never
Hollow Stalks or Hollow Lobes: Never
Gelatinous: Almost always

Photobiont
Green Algae Primary Photobiont: Never
Cyanobacteria Primary Photobiont: Almost always
Internal Cephalodia: Never
External Cephalodia: Never

Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia: Never
Apothecia: Rarely
   Mazaedium: Never
Disk Color    (Dry) 
   Disk Brown or Tan: Almost always

Asexual Reproduction
Isidia: Sometimes
Soredia: Never
Lobules: Sometimes