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these areoles appear whitish to greyish-yellow,
featuring blastidia on a few sides.
These blastidia stand out in
their deep
orange to dark brownish-orange...
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specific epithet blastidiata refers to the "blastidiate
thallus surface";
blastidia are
vegetative propagules containing both
mycobiont and photobiont, which...
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spherical reproductive structures known as
blastidia,
which match the
colour of the thallus.
These blastidia are
distributed across the
surface and edges...
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endophloeodal thallus (i.e.,
immersed in the bark substrate), the
black blastidia that
resemble small spots (the
species epithet refers to this feature)...
- similar-looking
species Flavoplaca citrina by
having larger diaspores,
which are
blastidia rather than soredia,
averaging 85±54 μm in size. "Synonymy.
Current Name:...
- grey thallus, its rougher,
longer and
thicker branches; its
soredia and
blastidia; and in the
absence of apothecia. Frolov, Ivan V.; Himelbrant, Dmitry...
- fragmentation, "primarily
through the
production of
largely terminal blastidia". It
occurs in a
multitude of locations, all the way from
British Columbia...
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means of
symbiotic vegetative propagules such as soredia,
isidia and
blastidia, and
thallus fragmentation. However, X.
parietina does not
produce such...
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convex areoles or squamules. Additionally, F. kantvilasii
features smaller blastidia and
larger conblastidia, and its asci
contain a
varied number of ascospores...
- Rhizocarpon. The
specific epithet blastidiata refers to the
presence of
blastidia,
which are
vegetative propagules that
contain mycobiont and photobiont...
