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Xanthoria ulophyllodes Räsänen
Description, based on tabulated characters in Kondratyuk (1997):
Foliose, orange (but evidently brighter yellow when wet), lobes spreading, very narrow, typically to 0.5mm in width (–1.5mm), tips budding rounded blastidia, 20–30 µm in diameter (microscope), some agglomerated into larger 'conblastidia', 40-60 µm diameter, rhizines present; apothecia laminal, spermatia (in orange, laminar pycnidia) narrowly cylindrical (bacilliform). Apparently uncommon and perhaps more in eastern Britain, on nutrient-enriched bark. Can be confused with Candelaria concolor but the latter does not test crimson-red with KOH.
Refs: Kondratyuk (1997); Smith et al. (2009), 971; Purvis et al. (1992), 646; Dobson (2005), 462; Dobson (2011), 472; Wirth (1995), 2: 973; Brodo et al. (2001), 748 (photo); Walewski (2007), 131 (photo, as X. "ulypholodes"). |
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On Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), Kindrogan, Perthshire, March 2008, wet material on morning after heavy dew.
Lower photograph shows positive (crimson) reaction with potassium hydroxide. |
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