lichen display

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

Characteristics of Peltigera rufescens (Weiss) Humb.

  • Soredia:
  • Lobules: no
  • Isidia: no
  • Podetia: no
  • Reproductive Body: apothecium tan
  • Body Type: foliose
  • Unstratified: no
  • Life Form: lobes tightly appressed
  • Hollow lobes: no
  • Central cord: no
  • Lobe shape: linear
  • Rhizines: brush-like or squarrose
  • Cilia margin: no
  • Simple perforate: no
  • Cyphellae: no
  • Pseudocyphellae: no
  • Lobe Color, inside: white
  • Lobe Color, underneath: brown-with tomentum
  • Surface Color: brownish, whitish-fine tomenum
  • Surface texture: pruinose, veined
  • Wrinkles:
  • Cephalodia: none
  • Papillae: no
  • Fibrilles on Branches: no
  • Spore type:
  • Spore size (um):
  • Lobe Width: 5 mm to 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: bluegreen
  • Iodine Test: negative
  • 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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