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Fuscidea lygaea
Nomenclature
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Family: FuscideaceaeGenus: Fuscidea
Species:
Fuscidea lygaea
SUMMARY
Thallus pale to dark grey-brown or dark brown, often with a purplish tinge, thin and continuous or ± incompletely rimose-cracked; areoles to 0.7 mm diam., often smaller, irregular, flat. Prothallus dark brown to black, thin.
Anamorph: no information available.
Teleomorph: ascomata apothecia, 0.2-0.6 mm diam., emergent to adpressed, sessile, black, rounded. Disc flat to markedly convex. True exciple at first thin, soon occluded, usually indistinct. Ascospores 5-9.5 × 5-6.5 μm, spherical to broadly ellipsoidal.
Chemistry: lichen products not detected by TLC.