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Calicioids of Temperate Regions 0.01 (development) Eric B. Peterson Calicium
Taxa covered (42): Calicium abietinum
Calicium adspersum ssp. adspersum Calicium adspersum ssp. australe Calicium brachysporum Calicium bullatum Calicium carolinianum Calicium chlorosporum Calicium constrictum Calicium corynellum Calicium denigratum Calicium diploellum Calicium glaucellum Calicium hyperelloides Calicium indicum Calicium isabellinum Calicium laevigatum Calicium lecideinum Calicium lenticulare Calicium leucochlorum Calicium lucidum Calicium montanum Calicium muriformis Calicium nobile Calicium notarisii Calicium parvum Calicium pinastri Calicium pinicola Calicium pluriseptatum Calicium pyriforme Calicium quercinum Calicium robustellum Calicium salicinum Calicium sequoiae Calicium tenuisporum Calicium tigillare Calicium trabinellum Calicium trachylioides Calicium tricolor Calicium verrucosum Calicium victorianum ssp. desidiosum Calicium victorianum ssp. victorianum Calicium viride Key to Species {WARNING: incomplete)
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Calicium abietinum Pers.
ID=3 Type(s): Tent. disp. meth. fung. (Lipsiae): 59 (1797) Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium adspersum ssp. adspersum Pers.
ID=5 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium adspersum ssp. australe
ID=6 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium brachysporum (Nádv.) K. Knudsen, Kocourk., & Lendemer
ID=213 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Ascomata immersed in thallus areoles. Anatomy: Ascospores septate, ellipsoid to nearly spherical with only minor narrowing at the septum, strongly pigmented brown. The wal of the spores is quite thick and typically exhibits fine cracking into areolate/punctate patterns at maturity. Larger deeper cracks may also be present. Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Endemic to south-central California. Global Rank: Conservation: Proposed for IUCN Global Red List. Notes: This taxon is clearly a very close relative of C. tigillare. Although litterature describes the spores of C. tigillare as larger than those of C. brachysporum, my limited experience suggests they have siubstantial overlap in their size ranges. In my preliminary opinion (and I really need to view more specimens to make this statement with certainty), these would be better distinguished on the spore wall ornamentation. C. tigillare has smooth spores or just a little random cracking whereas C. brachysporium has much of the spores covered with fine cracks that give it an areolate or punctate appearance. The other distinguishing factor may be their range. C. tigillare is a boreal species that comes southward in arid regions such as the intermountain west of North America (cool deserts). C. brachysporium is exclusively known from southern California where it is found in oak savannas of a mediterranian climate. While this habitat can be dry, it is certainly warmer, and through much of the lichen growing season (winter) is much more humid, than the intermountain west. Indeed it often grows adjacent to luxurient growths of Ramalina menziesii, indicating a significant presence of fog. Montane areas between the southern California oaks and the intermountain west (e.g. the Sierra, Cascade, and Klamath Mountains) have little, if any C. tigillare; rather the most appropriate habitats are taken by C. pinicola instead. Indeed, it seems unlikely that C. tigillare and C. brachysporum would be synonymized in that it would form a taxon that occurs in two rather different climates while skipping over intermediate areas. C. tigillare is regularly reported from southern California as well; I suggest that these should be closely reexamined with attention to the spore ornamentation distinction I postulate here. Perhaps of further interest, C. tigillare in the intermountain west can have either nearly spherical spores, or more distinctly elipsoidal spores as are typical for Calicium. External Information:
Calicium bullatum Aptroot & Tibell
ID=229 Type(s): Aptroot, Diederich, Sérusiaux & Sipman, Biblthca Lichenol. 64: 41 (1997) Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium carolinianum
ID=242 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium chlorosporum F. Wilson
ID=7 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium constrictum Tibell
ID=8 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium corynellum (Ach.) Ach.
ID=9 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium denigratum
ID=10 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium diploellum
ID=11 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium glaucellum Ach.
ID=12 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Usually immersed; if superficial then thin, pale gray to dark greenish gray, becoming verrucose. Anatomy: Asci cylindrical (spores uniseriate). Ascospores 9 - 13 µm, ornamented with minute longitudinal ridges combined with irregular cracking (see Tibell 1999). Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium hyperelloides Nyl.
ID=13 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium indicum Tibell
ID=14 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium isabellinum Tibell
ID=15 Type(s): Tibell 1998 Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Lichenized. Thallus superficial to immersed, yellowish. Mostly 0.5-1mm, but often with some shorter stalks. Anatomy: Cylindrical. 11.5-14.7 x 5.8-8.5, ornamentation of "minute polygonal areas and in ageing spores with coarse irregular cracks" (Tibell 1998). Chemistry: Thallus K-, C- KC+ pale orange, P-, UV-: Isousnic acid. Habitat: Biogeography: Known only from type locality in Chile as of Tibell 1998. Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium laevigatum Tibell
ID=16 Type(s): Tibell 2006: Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Lichenized. Episubstratic, verrucose, greenish grey. Ascomata tall, > 1mm. Excipulum brownish, K+ red. Anatomy: Asci cylindrical. Mature spores 10-12μm long with a spiral ornamentation when young, becoming more irregular at maturity. Chemistry: Thallus K+ yellow turning red, P+ yellow to orange. Alectorialic, barbatolic, hypoalectorialic, and norstictic acids. Habitat: Old forests of Quercus and Quercus-coniferous mixes. Known from bark of Quercus, Abies, and Tsuga Biogeography: Known only from the Himalayas thus far. Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium lecideinum (Nyl.) M. Prieto and Wedin
ID=218 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: listed in Tibell's checklist (1999), "NH-EUR" External Information:
Calicium lenticulare Ach.
ID=17 Type(s): Synonyms: Calicium subquercinum Asahina (see Index Fungorum) Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium leucochlorum Tuck.
ID=18 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium lucidum (Th.Fr.) M. Prieto and Wedin
ID=219 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium montanum Tibell
ID=19 Type(s): Tibell 1999 Mycotaxon 70: 431-443 Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Lichenized. Grannular to verrucose, grayish to greenish. Ascomata short-stalked, <0.5mm tall, excipular rim white pruinose. Anatomy: Cylindrical. Mature spores 9-12μm long with an irregularly cracked ornamentation. Chemistry: K- C- KC- P- I-, divaricatic and 2-O-methyldivaricatic acids Habitat: Drier, open forests and woodlands, on wood of Quercus, Juniperus, Pinus and other phorophytes. Biogeography: Africa, Europe, and North America. Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: [[[add citation of Sonoran Flora]]] External Information:
Calicium muriformis Tibell
ID=20 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium nobile Tibell
ID=21 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium notarisii (Tul.) M. Prieto and Wedin
ID=221 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium parvum Tibell
ID=22 Type(s): Synonyms: Unspecified collections: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium pinastri Tibell
ID=23 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium pinicola (Tibell) M. Prieto and Wedin
ID=222 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Thallus intensely yellow to yellow-green; verrucose to almost immersed. Ascomata sessile to partially immersed, < 1 mm diameter.. Anatomy: Ascospores 14-16 um long, developing irregular cracks at maturity. Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium pluriseptatum
ID=24 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium pyriforme Tibell
ID=25 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium quercinum Pers.
ID=26 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium robustellum Nyl.
ID=27 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Thallus verrucose to almost immersed, dull yellow to greenish yellow. Ascomata short but very stout, < 0.6 um tall, epruinose. Anatomy: Stalk with a pale outer layer. Ascospores 12.5 - 15.5 um long, ornamented by minute bumps. Chemistry: I-. Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium salicinum Pers.
ID=28 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium sequoiae C. Williams & Tibell
ID=29 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium tenuisporum Tibell
ID=30 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium tigillare (Ach.) Pers.
ID=224 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Thallus areolate, bright yellow. Ascomata immersed such that the rim of the excipulum is typically not visible in a dissecting scope. Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium trabinellum (Ach.) Ach.
ID=31 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium trachylioides (Nyl. ex Branth and Rostr.) M. Prieto and Wedin
ID=225 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium tricolor F. Wilson
ID=32 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium verrucosum Tibell
ID=33 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium victorianum ssp. desidiosum
ID=35 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Thallus immersed. Anatomy: Epruinose. Ascospores septate, 13.4 - 16.3 um long, ornamentation of a few irregular cracks with maturity. Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium victorianum ssp. victorianum
ID=34 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Thallus immersed. Ascomata very short stalked to roughly sessile. Anatomy: Ascospores septate, 10 - 12.5 um long, ornamentation of irregular bumps sometimes forming ridges, plus irregular cracks with maturity. Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Calicium viride Pers.
ID=36 Type(s): Synonyms: Habit and Morphology: Anatomy: Chemistry: Habitat: Biogeography: Global Rank: Conservation: Notes: External Information:
Count of taxa = 42 |