Common Macrolichens of the PNW
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Pseudephebe minuscula
Pseudocyphellaria citrina
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Pseudephebe pubescens
Overview
PNW Range:
West side
Uncommon
East side
Occasional
Immediate coast
None
Alpine or subalpine
Common
Habitat:
Low to high elevations in exposed to somewhat sheltered rocky sites; occasional.
Substrate:
Rock or gravelly soil.
Comments:
Synonymy:
none
Branches
by B. McCune
1/2
Habit
by B. McCune
2/2
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Scale: Bar=1mm unless noted
Growth Form
Fruticose
:
Almost always
Foliose
:
Never
Crustose
:
Never
Appressed Foliose
:
Never
Fluffy Foliose or Strappy
:
Never
Dangling Hair
:
Never
Erect Hair
:
Rarely
Appressed Hair
:
Almost always
Stalks With Squamules
:
Never
Stalks
:
Never
Squamules
:
Never
Single Holdfast
:
Never
Dangling Nets
:
Never
Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color
(Dry)
Black
:
Almost always
Olive Black
:
Almost always
Brown
:
Almost always
Upper Surface Tomentose
:
Never
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid
:
Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges
:
Never
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae
:
Rarely
Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity
:
Never
Cilia on Margins
:
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
Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia
:
Never
Apothecia
:
Rarely
Mazaedium
:
Never
Disk Color
(Dry)
Disk Black
:
Almost always
Disk Brown or Tan
:
Almost always
Asexual Reproduction
Isidia
:
Never
Soredia
:
Never
Lobules
:
Never