Lichens of Almería: November 2009

Lecanora crenulata

Lecanora crenulata vs. Lecanora dispersa (top image)

Crustose endolithic saxicolous, on calcareous rocks and lapidicolous.
Note: epithecium brown, spores colorless, ellipsoidal, 9-13 x 4-6 micras:

Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.700 m
Municipality: Felix

Diplotomma venustum

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks. We saw it in high mountain.

Note: thick thallus, tripseptate and brown-grey spores, some of them curved.

Thallus K+ red points; for some authors is synonimous D. epipolium.

Lithology: limestone

Altitude: 840 m
Municipality: Felix

Aspicilia farinosa

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Note: asci 8-espored, ascospores smaller than A. calcarea.

Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.750 m
Municipality: Felix

Caloplaca albopruinosa

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.800 m
Municipality: Felix

Caloplaca chalybaea

Crutose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.270 m
Municipality: Vélez Rubio

Parmeliopsis ambigua

Foliose epiphytic, mainly on conifers, in the Mediterranean zone, in mountain places with snowfall.
Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 820 m
Municipality: Laroya

Protoblastenia incrustans

Crustose endolithic, saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.700 m
Municipality: Felix

Rinodinella controversa

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Note: spores uniseptate, ellipsoidal, constricted at the septum:

Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.100 m
Municipality: Enix

Buellia almeriensis

Crustose endolithic in gypsum.
Lithology: gypsum
Altitude: 400 m
Municipality: Sorbas

Verrucaria lecideoides

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Note: areoles with black edge.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 100 m
Municipality: Almería

Acarospora macrospora

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous and siliceous rocks.
Note: big spores regarding the mean size in other species of the genus, 6-13 x 3-6 micron:

Ascus multi-spored

Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.700 m
Municipality: Felix

Placidium pilosellum

Squamulose terricolous, on cracks of calcareous rocks.
Note: with thin hairs on the margin:

Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 800 m
Municipality: Rágol

Physcia adscendens

Foliose epiphtic, on different trees, widespread.
Note: indicator of nitrogen enrichment.
Forophyte: Crataegus monogyna
Altitude: 1.640 m
Municipality: Felix

Thalloidima candidum

Squamulose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.750 m
Municipality: Felix

Caloplaca xantholyta

Thallus leprose, bright-yellow, in shaded calcareous places.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 970 m
Municipality: Turrillas

Diploschistes ocellatus var. almeriensis

Crustose terricolous, on gypsum and carbonated soils.
Note: Diploschistes ocellatus var. almeriensis is now synonimous of Diploschistes ocellatus, based on nuclear rDNA ITS sequence data (please see Martín et al. 2000).
Lithology: loam
Altitude: 400 m
Municipality: Sorbas