lichen display

Related literature on Peltigera britannica
habitat: wet conifer forest, Other lichen in the same habitat

Characteristics of Peltigera britannica (Gyelnik) Holt-Hartw. & Tønsberg

  • Soredia:
  • Lobules: no
  • Isidia: no
  • Podetia: no
  • Reproductive Body: apothecium brown
  • Body Type: foliose
  • Unstratified: no
  • Life Form: lobes loosely attached
  • Hollow lobes: no
  • Central cord: no
  • Lobe shape: rounded
  • Rhizines: brush-like or squarrose
  • Cilia margin: no
  • Simple perforate: no
  • Cyphellae: no
  • Pseudocyphellae: no
  • Lobe Color, inside: white
  • Lobe Color, underneath:
  • Surface Color: greenish-brown-fine tomentum
  • Surface texture: scabard
  • Wrinkles:
  • Cephalodia: yes external pockets-peltate
  • Papillae: no
  • Fibrilles on Branches: no
  • Spore type: septate
  • Spore size (um):
  • Lobe Width: more than 10 mm
  • Lobe Range Width:
  • Medullar C Reaction: negative
  • Medullar K Reaction: negative
  • Medullar KC Reaction: negative
  • Medullar P Reaction: negative
  • Areolate: not areolate
  • Algae: both bluegreen and green
  • Iodine Test: purple ascus
  • Cortex C:
  • Cortex K:
  • Cortex P:
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School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University
and
Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University
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