Thallus foliose, forming rosettes <20cm, upper surface blue-grey, undulate margins, dense cover of globose isidia (later claviform cilindrical). Lower surface brown-black. Apothecia very rare.
LICHENS OF CATALONIA
Parmelina tiliacea
Lasallia pustulata
Thallus foliose, attached at a single point by a central strand (umbilicate), 3-15 cm, upper surface white-grey, when wet green-brown, with oval pustules, margins and cracks with black isidia. Apothecia very rare.
Peltigera neckeri
Foliose, diameter <20cm, upper surface blue-grey; lower surface pale at margin and dark in the center, dark veins and rizines 5 mm long. Characteristic apothecia saddle-shape - tubular. Cortex spot test negative.
Ecology, geology: Diorites, Carboniferous-Permian
Altitude: 750 m
Location: Paratge Natural d'Interès Nacional de Poblet (Conca de Barberà)
Climate: Continental Mediterranean (Tmm=11,7ºC, 600mm)
Common name: black saddle pelt.
Umbilicaria freyi
Thallus umbilicate, diameter <10cm, upper surface pale grey, marginal schizidia to 2 mm wide; lower surface white to pale grey pink, apothecia rare. Medulla C+ and KC+ red.
Location: Paratge Natural d'Interès Nacional de Poblet (Conca de Barberà)
Climate: Continental Mediterranean (Tmm=11,7ºC, 600mm)
Vulpicida pinastri
Foliose, rosettes <6cm, bright lemon-yellow, sorediate margins.
Ecology, geology: on Pinus uncinata. Sandstones and lutites in centimetric alternations of Cambrian-Ordovician.
Altitude: 1.860 m
Location: Barranc de les Comes de Rubió. Soriguera (Pallars Sobirà)
Climate: Western Pre-pyrenean Mediterranean (Tmm=6ºC, 700mm)
Peltigera venosa
Foliose, attached by a single rhizine on silicic soil. Upper surface bright green when wet. Lower surface white, pale, with reticulate villose veins with dark cephalodia. 1-6 Apothecia per lobe, <5mm diameter, rounded, flat. Photobiont chlorococcoid, cephalodia with Nostoc.
Location: Barranc de Pussatrapa. Soriguera (Pallars Sobirà)
Climate: Western Pre-pyrenean Mediterranean (Tmm=6ºC, 700mm)
Pleopsidium flavum
Apothecia (0,5-1,2 mm) with persistent thalline margins.
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Pleopsidium flavum |
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Third pitch of the climbing route "Esperó de Doppelmayer" |
Altitude: 2.000 m
Location: Ordino Arcalís Station (Andorre)
Climate: Oceanic (Tmm=9,6ºC, 900mm)
More lichens in this rock climbing route: Vertilíquens - Balma d'Arcalís - Esperó Doppelmayr 90m (MD-)
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Pleopsidium flavum on andesite from "Midi d'Ossau - Jolly (400m MD+) France" |
Common name: gold cobblestone lichen