- similar-looking
species Flavoplaca citrina by
having larger diaspores,
which are
blastidia rather than soredia,
averaging 85±54 μm in size.
Caloplaca limonia is...
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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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squamulose (scaly)
thallus with
contrasting citrine to orange-yellow
blastidia, and for
lacking the
anthraquinone pigments typical of its family. Instead...
- fragmentation, "primarily
through the
production of
largely terminal blastidia". It
occurs in a
multitude of locations, all the way from
British Columbia...
- dis**** via
symbiotic vegetative propagules such as soredia, isidia, or
blastidia, but X. parietina
lacks these structures and must re-establish its symbiotic...
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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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specific epithet blastidiata refers to the "blastidiate
thallus surface";
blastidia are
vegetative propagules containing both
mycobiont and photobiont, which...
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protruding hyphae,
measuring 20–40 μm,
occasionally forming consoredia or
blastidia-like
structures up to 50 μm in diameter. The
species lacks a prothallus...
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Plural blastidia. A
rounded granule-like
propagule containing mycobiont and photobiont,
produced from the
thallus margin by budding;
subsequent blastidia are...
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rounded cells. Some
species produce reproductive structures called soredia,
blastidia or isidia. Like most lichens,
Caloplaca contains a
green algal partner...
