Worldwide.
Diverse (and almost certainly heterogeneous) set of crustose lichens with lecideine to biatorine apothecia and small, hyaline 1-septate spores. Catillaria s. str. has dark apothecia, uniformly K/I+ blue ascus tips, abruptly swollen paraphyses tips with dark pigment cap.
All types.
Many crustose lichen genera may resemble this one superficially. Microscope is necessary to distinguish them.
However there are only a few crustose genera with pale to black apothecia and small, hyaline, 1-septate spores:
Biatora: paraphyses conglutinated and not swollen, asci Biatora-type
Catinaria: thick-walled spores, photobiont Trentepohlia
Micarea: paraphyses abundantly branched, photobiont small and in pairs
Lecania: lecanorine at least when young
Toninia: generally squamulose
Catillaria is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Catillariaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1852.[2] It is the type genus of Catillariaceae, which was circumscribed by Austrian lichenologist Josef Hafellner in 1984.[3]
Catillaria is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Catillariaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1852. It is the type genus of Catillariaceae, which was circumscribed by Austrian lichenologist Josef Hafellner in 1984.
