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Platismatia glauca (L.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb., 1968 (a lichen)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Platismatia glauca Imperfect stage 12 May 1979 (Yorks) England 1
Platismatia glauca Imperfect stage 11 May 1979 Mid-west Yorkshire England 1
Platismatia glauca Imperfect stage 14 April 1979 West Sussex England 2
Platismatia glauca Imperfect stage 28 September 1973 North-east Yorkshire England 1

Suggested Literature

Platismatia glauca 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 Platismatia glauca:

thallus (bleached) bleached thallus is parasitised by Cornutispora anamorph Cornutispora lichenicola - a lichenicolous anamorphic ascomycete UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983 [forming black-margined, decolorised patches]
Photos thallus (bleached) bleached thallus is parasitised by sporodochium of Marchandiomyces anamorph Marchandiomyces corallinus - a lichenicolous anamorphic basidiomycete UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983
thallus (convolutedly galled) convolutedly galled thallus is galled by apothecium Abrothallus parmeliarum - a lichenicolus ascomycete (Dothideales) UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983
thallus (galled) galled thallus is galled by pycnidium of Vouauxiomyces coelomycetous anamorph Vouauxiomyces santessonii - a lichenicolous coelomycete UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983 [forms convoluted galls]
thallus (live) live thallus is parasitised by basidiocarp Tremella coppinsii - a brain fungus (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Platismatia glauca may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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

References

Hawksworth, D.L., 1983 A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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