lichen display

Related literature on Peltigera didactyla
habitat: soil banks or disturbed areas, Other lichen in the same habitat

Characteristics of Peltigera didactyla (With.) J.R. Laundon

  • Soredia: scattered over upper surface
  • Lobules: no
  • Isidia: no
  • Podetia: no
  • Reproductive Body: apothecium brown
  • Body Type: foliose
  • Unstratified: no
  • Life Form: lobes tightly attached
  • Hollow lobes: no
  • Central cord: no
  • Lobe shape: rounded
  • Rhizines: single or forked
  • Cilia margin: no
  • Simple perforate: no
  • Cyphellae: no
  • Pseudocyphellae: no
  • Lobe Color, inside: white
  • Lobe Color, underneath: tan-no tomentum
  • Surface Color: grayish-brown-fine tomentum
  • Surface texture: veined-bottom
  • Wrinkles:
  • Cephalodia: none
  • Papillae: no
  • Fibrilles on Branches: no
  • Spore type:
  • Spore size (um):
  • Lobe Width:
  • Lobe Range Width: 5mm - 15mm
  • 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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