Common Macrolichens of the PNW
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Thamnolia vermicularis
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Teloschistes flavicans
Overview
PNW Range:
West side
None
East side
None
Immediate coast
Rare
Alpine or subalpine
None
Habitat:
Coastal headland forests (usually Picea sitchensis), rare.
Substrate:
On bark and wood.
Comments:
Synonymy:
none
Habit
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
:
Sometimes
Erect Hair
:
Commonly
Appressed Hair
:
Never
Stalks With Squamules
:
Never
Stalks
:
Never
Squamules
:
Never
Single Holdfast
:
Commonly
Dangling Nets
:
Never
Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color
(Dry)
Orange
:
Almost always
Yellow
:
Almost always
Upper Surface Tomentose
:
Never
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid
:
Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges
:
Rarely
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae
:
Never
Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity
:
Never
Cilia on Margins
:
Commonly
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+ Purple or Red
:
Almost always
Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia
:
Never
Apothecia
:
Rarely
Mazaedium
:
Never
Disk Color
(Dry)
Disk Orange
:
Almost always
Asexual Reproduction
Isidia
:
Never
Soredia
:
Sometimes
Lobules
:
Never
