Lichens of Almería: August 2010

Aspicilia epiglypta

Crustose saxicolous, on horizontal siliceous rocks near the ground, from 1.800 metres above sea level.

Note: spores more than 25 micras.
Lithology: quartzite
Altitude: 2. 100 m
Municipality: Gérgal

Lecanora carpinea

Crustose epiphytic, preferably on smooth barks.

Note: apothecium disc C+ yelow:

Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 920 m
Municipality: Enix

Diplotomma alboatrum

Crustose epiphytic and saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Thallus grey-witish, cracked, without lobes, black apothecia slightly pruinose.

Note: epithecium and hipothecium brownish-grey, spores submuriform, brownish-grey, little greenish and sometimes curved:

Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 920 m
Municipality: Enix

Crustose, cracked-aerolated, saxicolous, on horizontal calcareous rocks near the ground, shady places, in the image under Quercus ilex, 1.300 metres above sea level.
Note: Thallus C+ lightly red, wrinkled surface, apothecia lecanorinum, inmersed:

Spores brownish, bi-celled, between Pachysporaria type and Milvina type.

Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 920 m
Municipality: Enix

Cladonia coniocraea

Thallus consists of basal squamules and apical podetia terminated in a point or in a cup that do not exceed the width of podetium, no branched. Epiphytic, on the base of trees or terricolous.

Note: squamules with brown pycnidia.
Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.150 m
Municipality: Turrillas

Cladonia fimbriata

Thallus consists of basal squamules and apical podetia, terricolous, in the image on bryophyte at the base of a Quercus ilex.
Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.320 m
Municipality: Turrillas

Flavoparmelia soredians

Foliose epiphytic, on sunny surface.

Note: medull K+ yellow turning red.

Soralia and soredia:

Forophyte: Quercus ilex

Altitude: 1.250 m
Municipality: Turrillas

Parmelia sulcata

Foliose epiphytic, on slightly acid barks, in the image on Quercus ilex.

Note: black underside, dark brown to the margin. Pseudocyphellae forming networks on the lobes surfaces.

Laminar soredia:

Black simple ricines:

Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.255 m
Municipality: Tabernas

Peltigera polydactylon

Foliose terricolous-muscicolous, on siliceous soils in shady places.

Note: apothecia perpendicular to the thallus, curved as shaddle shape.
Lithology: acid soil with mica schist
Altitude: 1.430, 1.305 m
Municipality: Fiñana, Tabernas.

Agonimia tristicula

Squamulose to granular, on soil or bryophytes, on basic lands.

Note: erect, lobated and imbricated squamules.

Thallus on binocular magnifier:

Perithecia semi-inmersed:

Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 720 m
Municipality: Rágol

Peltigera membranacea

Foliose terricolous-muscicolous, in more or less shady places.

In the image under Quercus faginea.

Note: without isidia.

Apothecia:

Lithology: acid soil with schist
Altitude: 980 m
Municipality: Vélez Rubio

Lecanora hagenii

Crustose epiphytic, on Quercus ilex. Overlooked.
Note: apotecia with crenulated and pruinose margins:

Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 920 m
Municipality: Enix

Collema ceraniscum

Foliose homomerous, ascending lobes, living in cracks of calcareous rocks.

Note: homomerous structure, thallus cut:

Genus Nostoc, photobionte:

Lithology: clay
Altitude: 920 m
Municipality: Enix

Pertusaria hemisphaerica

Crustose epiphytic, on Quercus ilex.

Note: soralia convex, no bitter, thallus with white continuos border:

Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.550 m
Municipality: Ohanes

Melanelixia glabra

Foliose epiphytic, on diffrent phorophytes usually with neutral bark.

Note: medulla C+ orangish. Apothecium with witish and thin hairs:

Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.550 m
Municipality: Ohanes

Ramalina fraxinea

Fruticose epiphytic, on deciduos trees, in the image on Populus nigra.

Note: apotecia on the border, never on the tips:

It can become big sizes, form luxurians:

Forophyte: Populus nigra
Altitude: 1.435 m
Municipality: Ohanes

Arthonia cinnabarina

Crustose epiphytic, usually on smooth bark, rarely on Quercus ilex like this image.
Note: apothecia reddish pruinose.

Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.500 m
Municipality: Ohanes

Pertusaria albescens

Crustose epiphytic, on Quercus in forest zone.
Note: soralia from flat to concave, no bitter.
Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.500 m
Municipality: Ohanes