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Pertusaria conspersa Messuti
Nomenclature
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Family: PertusariaceaeGenus: Pertusaria
Media
SUMMARY
Mycobank MB 517804
Thallus crustose, light to moderate yellowish brown (hazel), areolate to rugose-areolate, thin to thick, surface smooth and dull, epruinose or with a white pruina, saxicolous, areolae flattened to slightly bullate, orbicular to angular or irregular, margins of the areoles thick and slighty effuse, contiguous or separated by thick, deeps cracks, lacking isidia, sorediate. Soralia cream coloured, orbicular, flattened to convex, numerous, conspicuous, solitary or crowded, sometimes confluent (2–4), sessile, somewhat resembling apothecia, erumpent, with a smooth or irregular margin, concolorous with the thallus, light to moderate yellowish brown, 0.2–1.5 mm wide; soredia granular, 0.10–0.15 mm diam. Apothecia not seen. Pycnidia not seen. Secondary chemistry (determined by HPLC): haemathamnolic acid (major), thamnolic acid (major, minor or trace).