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Lecanora chlarotera Nyl., 1872 (a lichen)

Date: 21 March 1999
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 21/03/1999[D]
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Record Summary: on Sallow trunk
Associated organism: on living trunk of Salix cinerea
Identification Notes: Ascospores: 10.8/5.8µm, ellipsoid, 8/ascus.
Paraphyses: filiform, sub-capitate, hyaline in KOH.
Thallus: K+yellow, KC-, C-.
Apothecial disc: C-.
Apothecium with abundant hyaline crystals.

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magnified photograph Apothecia - close-up 43 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Apothecia 50 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Thallus 500 by 329 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 12 Kb 200 by 272 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 18 Kb 263 by 331 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores 4 Kb 171 by 94 pixels
microscope photograph Crystals from apothecium 25 Kb 425 by 255 pixels
microscope photograph Phycosymbiont 16 Kb 214 by 240 pixels

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