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Hypocenomyce scalaris (Ach. ex Lilj.) M.Choisy


Thallus green to green-brown, more greyish when dry, consisting of overlapping scales with ascending, sorediate tips; apothecia rare, black, discs pruinose. Widespread and locally common on acid-barked trees, fences and sheltered, siliceous rocks.

Refs: Smith et al. (2009), 437; Purvis et al. (1992), 275; Dobson (2005), 191 (photo); Dobson (2011), 196 (photo); Jahns (1983), 208-9 (photo); Whelan (2011), 99 (photo); van Haluwyn et al. (2009), 218-9 (photo); van Herk & Aptroot (2004), 190-191 (photo); Wirth (1995), 1: 424-5 (photo); Wirth et al. (2004), 131 (photo); Frahm et al. (2010), 96 (photo); Moberg & Holmåson (1984), 122 (photo, as Lecidea scalaris); Holien & Tønsberg (2008), 163 (photo); Brodo et al. (2001), 344-345 (photo); Hinds & Hinds (2007), 268-9 (photo); Thomson (1997), 248.

 
Hypocenomyce scalaris
On Pinus sylvestris, Braemar, Aberdeenshire, April 2002
 
Hypocenomyce scalaris, with apothecia
Hypocenomyce scalaris, with apothecia, close up
Material with apothecia, on Pinus sylvestris, Braemar, Aberdeenshire, March 2008


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