Common Macrolichens of the PNW
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Platismatia lacunosa
Platismatia stenophylla
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Platismatia norvegica
Overview
PNW Range:
West side
Occasional
East side
None
Immediate coast
Uncommon
Alpine or subalpine
Uncommon
Habitat:
Moist conifer forest at middle elevations; occasional at sea level on the immediate coast; rare to absent in foothill conifer forests.
Substrate:
Bark and wood, mainly conifers; rarely on mossy rock.
Comments:
Synonymy:
none
Habit
Growth Form
Fruticose
:
Never
Foliose
:
Almost always
Crustose
:
Never
Appressed Foliose
:
Commonly
Fluffy Foliose or Strappy
:
Sometimes
Dangling Hair
:
Never
Erect Hair
:
Never
Appressed Hair
:
Never
Stalks With Squamules
:
Never
Stalks
:
Never
Squamules
:
Never
Single Holdfast
:
Never
Dangling Nets
:
Never
Lobe Width
(mm):
15 (± 5)
Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color
(Dry)
Pale Gray Green
:
Almost always
Pale Green
:
Rarely
Whitish
:
Sometimes
Pale Gray
:
Almost always
Upper Surface Tomentose
:
Never
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid
:
Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges
:
Almost always
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae
:
Sometimes
Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity
:
Never
Cilia on Margins
:
Never
Lower Surface (Foliose)
Lower Surface Color
(Dry)
Whitish
:
Almost always
Black
:
Almost always
Brown
:
Almost always
Tan
:
Almost always
Veined Below
:
Never
Rhizinate Below
:
Sometimes
Rhizines Squarrose
:
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
:
Never
Photobiont
Green Algae Primary Photobiont
:
Almost always
Cyanobacteria Primary Photobiont
:
Never
Internal Cephalodia
:
Never
External Cephalodia
:
Never
Chemistry
Cortex K+ Yellow
:
Almost always
Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia
:
Never
Apothecia
:
Rarely
Mazaedium
:
Never
Disk Color
(Dry)
Disk Brown or Tan
:
Almost always
Asexual Reproduction
Isidia
:
Commonly
Soredia
:
Never
Lobules
:
Never
