lichen display

Related literature on Pertusaria amara
habitat: mixed conifer and deciduous forest, Other lichen in the same habitat

Characteristics of Pertusaria amara DC.

  • Soredia: scattered over upper surface
  • Lobules: no
  • Isidia: no
  • Podetia: no
  • Reproductive Body:
  • Body Type: crustose
  • Unstratified: no
  • Life Form: lobes tightly appressed
  • Hollow lobes: no
  • Central cord: no
  • Lobe shape: not applicable
  • Rhizines:
  • Cilia margin: no
  • Simple perforate: no
  • Cyphellae: no
  • Pseudocyphellae: no
  • Lobe Color, inside: white
  • Lobe Color, underneath:
  • Surface Color: grayish-green
  • Surface texture: scabard
  • Wrinkles:
  • Cephalodia: none
  • Papillae: no
  • Fibrilles on Branches: no
  • Spore type:
  • Spore size (um):
  • Lobe Width:
  • Lobe Range Width:
  • Medullar C Reaction: negative
  • Medullar K Reaction: negative
  • Medullar KC Reaction: positive red
  • Medullar P Reaction: negative
  • Areolate: cracked surface on substrate
  • Algae: green
  • Iodine Test:
  • Cortex C:
  • Cortex K:
  • Cortex P:
These lichen pages provided with NSF funding and in association with
Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University
and
Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University
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