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Protoblastenia cyclospora (Hepp ex Körb.) Poelt  
Family: Psoraceae
[Biatora cyclospora Hepp ex Körb., moreBiatora rubidula (Nyl.) Walt. Watson, Biatorella rubidula (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Lecidea cyclospora (Hepp ex Körb.) Müll. Arg., Lecidea globulificans Nyl., Lecidea rubidula Nyl., Protoblastenia globulificans (Nyl.) Zahlbr.]
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Global occurrence: Eurasia – Europe | Arctic.  Substrate: rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified.  Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts).  Thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified; continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose; [th] upper surface: grey(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) grey; [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent.  Ascomata: absent | present; ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial; ascoma [mm]: (min) 0.35 (low) 0.45(median) 0.5 (high) 0.6 (max) 2.0; ascoma: sessile, superficial; [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex; [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: red(dish) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | brown(ish) red (carneous); [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: red(dish); [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: absent; [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: red(dish) | hyaline, colourless | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | yellowish hyaline; [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present; [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (low) 2.0(median) 3.0 (high) 3.5; [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: (low) 3.0(median) 3.7 (high) 4.0; [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: red(dish) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | yellow(ish) red (orange red).  Asci: lecanoralean; [asc] tholus: thickened; [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present; [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc).  Ascospores: (median) 8.0; [asp] shape: globose, spherical | subglobose, subspherical; [asp] length [µm]: (min) 5.0 (low) 7.5(median) 8.4 (high) 9.0; [asp] width [µm]: (min) 5.0 (low) 7.5(median) 7.8 (high) 8.5; [asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular; [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless; [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent.  Conidiomata: absent | present.  Conidia: cylindrical | bacilliform, bacillary.  Secondary metabolites: present, unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s).  Primary photobiont: present, chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid. Secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent.

Protoblastenia cyclospora
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