lichen display

Related literature on Hypogymnia occidentalis
habitat: wet conifer forest, Other lichen in the same habitat

Characteristics of Hypogymnia occidentalis L. Pike

  • Soredia:
  • Lobules: no
  • Isidia: no
  • Podetia: no
  • Reproductive Body: apothecium brown
  • Body Type: foliose
  • Unstratified: no
  • Life Form: lobes tightly attached
  • Hollow lobes: yes
  • Central cord: no
  • Lobe shape: linear
  • Rhizines:
  • Cilia margin: no
  • Simple perforate: yes
  • Cyphellae: no
  • Pseudocyphellae: no
  • Lobe Color, inside: dark and light
  • Lobe Color, underneath: black-no tomentum
  • Surface Color: grayish-green
  • Surface texture:
  • Wrinkles: lower surface
  • Cephalodia: none
  • Papillae:
  • Fibrilles on Branches:
  • Spore type:
  • Spore size (um):
  • Lobe Width:
  • Lobe Range Width: 20 mm - 150 mm
  • Medullar C Reaction:
  • Medullar K Reaction: negative
  • Medullar KC Reaction: positive red
  • Medullar P Reaction: ambiguous
  • Areolate:
  • Algae:
  • Iodine Test:
  • Cortex C:
  • Cortex K: positive yellow
  • 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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