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Hypogymnia physodes (L.) Nyl., 1896 (a lichen)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Hypogymnia physodes Perfect and imperfect stages 30 May 1999 Berks England 8 2
Hypogymnia physodes Imperfect stage 11 May 1979 Mid-west Yorkshire England 1
Hypogymnia physodes Imperfect stage 27 October 1974 Surrey England 1
Hypogymnia physodes Imperfect stage 9 April 1971 East Norfolk England 1 1

Suggested Literature

Hypogymnia physodes 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 Hypogymnia physodes:

thallus (bleached or necrosed, punctured) bleached or necrosed, punctured thallus may be infected and damaged by clustered pycnidium of Lichenoconium coelomycetous anamorph Lichenoconium erodens - a lichenicolous coelomycete UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983 [causes bleached lesions or necrotic patches, surrounded by a black line, which become holes.]
Photos thallus (bleached) bleached thallus is parasitised by sporodochium of Marchandiomyces anamorph Marchandiomyces corallinus - a lichenicolous anamorphic basidiomycete UK/Ireland Hawksworth, D.L., 1983
Hawksworth, D.L., 1979
thallus (live) live thallus is parasitised by basidiocarp Tremella hypogymniae - a brain fungus (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Hypogymnia physodes 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
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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