lichen display

Related literature on Peltigera canina
habitat: dry conifer forest, Other lichen in the same habitat

Characteristics of Peltigera canina (L.) Willd.

  • 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:
  • Lobe Color, underneath: white-no tomentum
  • Surface Color: grayish-brown-fine tomentum
  • Surface texture: veined-bottom
  • Wrinkles:
  • Cephalodia: none
  • Papillae:
  • Fibrilles on Branches:
  • Spore type:
  • Spore size (um):
  • Lobe Width:
  • Lobe Range Width: 10 mm - 16 mm
  • Medullar C Reaction: negative
  • Medullar K Reaction: negative
  • Medullar KC Reaction: negative
  • Medullar P Reaction: negative
  • Areolate:
  • Algae: bluegreen
  • Iodine Test:
  • Cortex C: negative
  • Cortex K: negative
  • Cortex P: negative
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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