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Porpidia tuberculosa (Sm.) Hertel & Knoph  
Family: Lecideaceae
[Haplocarpon tumidum (A. Massal.) M. Choisy, moreHuilia tuberculosa (Sm.) P. James, Lecidea sorediza Nyl., Lecidea sorediza f. renudata (Vain.) Vain., Lecidea sorediza f. sorediza Nyl., Lecidea sorediza var. oxydata H. Magn., Lecidea sorediza var. sorediza Nyl., Lecidea tumida A. Massal., Lecidea tumida f. glaucocaesia I.M. Lamb, Lecidea tumida f. sorediza (Nyl.) I.M. Lamb, Lecidea tumida f. tumida A. Massal., Spiloma tuberculosum Sm.]
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Samuel Brinker
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Botanische Staatssammlung München
Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate [th] upper surface: grey(ish) | white(ish) | blue(ish) grey [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: present [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: absent [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: absent [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: present [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: smooth, plane | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose [th] medulla amyloidity: present ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.8 (high) 1.2 (max) 1.5 ascoma: immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose | pruinose [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: black(ish) [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: absent [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: brown(ish) black [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | green(ish) brown (olive brown) 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: ellipsoidal [asp] length [µm]: (min) 9.0 (low) 10.5 (high) 16.0 (max) 25.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 4.0 (high) 6.5 (max) 12.0 [asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent | thin, thinly halonate | thick, distincly halonate conidiomata: absent | present conidia: bacilliform, bacillar secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: 2'-O-methylmicrophyllinic acid | 2'-O-methylperlatolic acid | confluentic acid | norstictic acid | stictic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified.
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This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards: #1115116, #2001500, #2001394
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