Biology:Candelariella vitellina
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| Candelariella vitellina on granite, magnification 30x | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Candelariomycetes |
| Order: | Candelariales |
| Family: | Candelariaceae |
| Genus: | Candelariella |
| Species: | C. vitellina
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| Candelariella vitellina (Ehrh.) Müll.Arg. (1894)
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Candelariella vitellina is a common and widespread green-yellow to orange-yellow crustose areolate lichen that grows on rock, wood, and bark, all over the world.[1] It grows on non-calcareous rock, wood, and bark.[1]
Taxonomy
The taxon Candelariella vitellina var. mendozae, proposed by Finnish lichenologist Veli Räsänen in 1941,[2] was promoted to distinct species status, Placomaronea mendozae, in 2004.[3]
Description
Candelariella vitellina often has tiny lobate areoles in the shape of lion claws.[1] The areoles may be flat or convex.[1] Its sexual reproductive structures (apothecia) are a 0.35–1.0 mm-wide disc, darker yellow than the thallus, rimmed with thallus-like tissue (lecanorine), flat but becoming convex with age.[1] The results of lichen spot tests are K+ reddish, KC−, and C−.[1] It produces calycin, pulvinic acid, pulvinic dilactone and vulpinic acid as secondary metabolites.[1]
Candelariella vitellina looks like a miniature version of C. rosulans.[1] It can be distinguished by C. vitanela having a visible exciple (the rim around the apothecia disc), which C. rosulans does not have.[1] It is usually much larger and thicker than the similar C. lutella.[1]
Habitat and distribution
In California , it prefers growing on granite, but can also be found on wood (rarely on bark) and other kinds of rock.[4]:251
Species interactions
It is a known host to the lichenicolous fungus species Carbonea vitellinaria.[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 2, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]
- ↑ Räsänen, V. (1941). "La flora liquenologica de Mendoza (Argentina)". Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, Buenos Aires E III 131: 97–110 [100]. https://nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/lav/RLL/PDF1/M29507.pdf.
- ↑ Westberg, M. (2004). "Placomaronea". Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. 2. Tempe, Arizona: Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-9716759-1-9.
- ↑ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN:978-0-300-19500-2
- ↑ Brackel, Wolfgang von (2011). "Lichenopeltella rangiferinae sp. nov. and some other lichenicolous fungi from Iceland". Acta Botanica Islandica 15: 51-60. https://utgafa.ni.is/Acta-Botanica-Islandica/Acta-Botanica-Islandica-15/Acta-Botanica-Islandica-15-5.pdf.
- ↑ Alstrup, V.; Olech, M.; Wietrzyk-Pelka, P.; Wegrzyn, M. H. (2018). "The lichenicolous fungi of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: species diversity and identification guide". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 87 (4): 3607. doi:10.5586/asbp.3607.
Wikidata ☰ Q10725552 entry
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