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LECANOROMYCETIDAE
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TELOSCHISTACEAE
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Xanthoria
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Xanthoria parietina
(a lichen)
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Xanthoria parietina (L.) Th. Fr., 1858 (a lichen)

Date: 21 February 1999
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 21/02/1999[C]
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Record Summary: on recently-fallen Crack Willow
Associated organism: on recently fallen Salix fragilis
Identification Notes: Medulla K+ carmine-red.
Paraphyses with swollen tips, gummy.

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magnified photograph Apothecia - close-up 33 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Fertile thallus 38 Kb 360 by 310 pixels
magnified photograph Fertile thallus 500 by 429 pixels
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magnified photograph Thallus tip - close-up 28 Kb 319 by 411 pixels
microscope photograph Algal symbiont 14 Kb 269 by 269 pixels
microscope photograph Asci and paraphyses 19 Kb 348 by 256 pixels
microscope photograph Asci, ascospores and paraphyses 500 by 204 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores 23 Kb 477 by 289 pixels
microscope photograph Medulla 13 Kb 373 by 262 pixels
microscope photograph Medulla 29 Kb 406 by 246 pixels
microscope photograph Paraphyses 30 Kb 427 by 341 pixels

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