Peccania cernohorskyi

 

Thallus subsquamulose-peltate on soils. With short, cylindrical to slightly flattened lobes covered with globose, isidia-like outgrowths:

Spores: Asci 8-spored. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, globose or subglobose.

Lithology: clay.

Altitude: sea-level.

Municipality: Almería.

Peccania tiruncula

Foliose-subsquamulose, peltate-monophyllous on soil.

Photobiont: cyanobacteria, coccaceous (e.g., Gloeocapsa).

Spores: Asci 8-spored. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, globose or subglobose.

Lithology: clay.

Altitude: sea-level and 520 m.

Municipality: Almería and Gérgal.

Calogaya clauzadeana

  

  

Crustose saxicolous. It occurs on vertical or rain-protected surfaces of calcareous rocks.

Ascospores 2-celled, polarilocular, narrowly ellipsoid.

Lithology: limestone

Altitude: 450 m

Municipality: Vícar

Variospora placidia

 

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.

It starts its life cycle on the thalli of Pyrenodesmia chalybaea.

Lithology: limestone

Altitude: 1.000 m

Municipality: Felix

Calogaya oblitterata

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks. In shaded conditions.

Lithology: schist

Altitude: 1.600 m

Municipality: Purchena

Lecanora frustulosa

Crustose, saxicolous on siliceous rocks. In exposed situations at high altitudes in mountains.
Note: disc K+ blue, thallus K-, Cl-. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline.

Lithology: mica schist
Altitude: 2000 m
Municipality: Gérgal

Squamarina stella-petraea

 Squamulose saxicolous, densely white-pruinose, areolate in the centre.

Lithology: limestone

Altitude: 1.030 m

Municipality: Albox

Peltula crispatula

Squamulose, comophytic, calciferous.

Note: greenish squamules (0.5 - 1.5 mm), marginally lobate or sublobate. Erect margin. Thallus esterile.

With brown-reddish squamules of Heteroplacidium compactum scattered between the thallus.

Lithology: limestone

Altitude: 100 m

Municipality: Almería
 

 

 

 

Heteroplacidium divisum

 

Squamulose, on calcareous rocks, in fissures and cavities.

Note: with imbricate squamules. Heteroplacidium divisum occurs in semiarid or dry regions. The species is very scarce in the Iberian Peninsula, with scattered occurrences in the southeast of Spain and the Balearic Islands. It is very rare worldwide, distributed mainly in Mediterranean regions, occurring in Croatia, France, and Turkey (Prieto et al. 2010).

Lithology: limestone

Altitude: 100 m

Municipality: Almería

Ramalina maciformis

 

Fruticose, saxicolous, on small pebbles on the ground, arid areas near the coast where dew is abundant.

Lithology: calcarenite, conglomerate.

Altitude: 10 m

Municipality: El Ejido

Ramalina lacera

 

Fruticose epiphytic in dry locations near the coast.
Forophyte: Ziziphus lotus
Altitude: sea level
Municipality: Almería

Acarospora murorum

Crustose-squamulose, saxicolous-terricolous on clay soil.
Note: asci to 100-spored, spores 6-13 microns long and 3-6 microns wide, ellipsoidal.

Lithology: clay soil
Altitude: 190m
Municipality: Almería

Caloplaca aractina

Crustose, saxicolous on siliceous rocks.
Note: thallus lumpty-aerolate, granulose, apothecia K+ purple:

Spores 11-14 x 6.5-8.5 microns with septum 4.5-5 microns:

Spores into the ascus

Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1735 m
Municipality: Velefique

Rimularia insularis

Crustose, saxicolous parasitic on Lecanora rupicola. Absent in disturbed environments.
Note: medulla I-, thallus C-, hypothecium dark:

Spores colorless:

Lithology: mica schist
Altitude: 2005 m
Municipality: Bacares

Dermatocarpon miniatum var. complicatum

Foliose, saxicolous on siliceous rain-tracks in sheltered situations.
Note: grey and usually pruinose upper surface, multilobed thallus with multiple holdfasts scattered over the lower surface—never having a central holdfast. Lower surface smooth without verruciformis excrescences. (Description based on Glavich (2006)).

Lithology: mica schist
Altitude: 1550 m
Municipality: Velefique