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Physconia distorta (With.) J.R. Laundon, 1984 (a lichen)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Physconia distorta Perfect and imperfect stages 23 August 1978 East Perthshire Scotland 2

Suggested Literature

Physconia distorta may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Physconia distorta:

may support immersed apothecium Buellia pulverulenta - a lichenicolous lichen (Lecanorales: Physciaceae) UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983
Photos thallus (bleached) bleached thallus is parasitised by sporodochium of Marchandiomyces anamorph Marchandiomyces corallinus - a lichenicolous anamorphic basidiomycete Hawksworth, D.L., 1979
thallus lobe (weakly bleached) weakly bleached thallus lobe may be infected and damaged by colony of Taeniolella dematiaceous anamorph Taeniolella phaeophysciae - a lichenicolous anamorphic fungus (Hysteriales: Mytilinidiaceae) UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983
Hawksworth, D.L., 1979
thallus thallus may support immersed thallus Buellia pulverulenta - a lichenicolous lichen (Lecanorales: Physciaceae) UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983
thallus thallus may be infected and damaged by colony of Taeniolella dematiaceous anamorph Taeniolella delicata - a lichenicolous anamorphic fungus (Hysteriales: Mytilinidiaceae) Hawksworth, D.L., 1979 [dispersed black spots becoming confluent]

Physconia distorta may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

References

Hawksworth, D.L., 1979 The Lichenicolous Hyphomycetes
Hawksworth, D.L., 1983 A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles

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