Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Licea variabilis Schrad. Nov. Gen. PI. 18. 1797
Licea fiexuosa Pers. Syn. Fung. 197. 1801. Tubulina flexuosa Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 8: 131. 18C8. Licea alutacea Wallr. Fl. Crypt. Germ. 2: 344. 1833.
Fructfication plasmodiocarpous, elongate to annulate, 0.3-1 mm. wide, 1-10 mm. in length, often branching or irregular or merely pulvinate, varying in color from bright ochraceous to dull black; hypothallus well developed, dull yellow; peridium of two layers, the inner thin, membranous, transparent, iridescent, the outer sometimes lacking or scanty, typically thick, dark, opaque; dehiscence irregular; spores pale olivaceous in mass, pallid under a lens, globose or slightly irregular or angular, thickwalled, with a thinner area of dehiscence, minutely spinulose, 12-15 u in diameter; Plasmodium dull yellow or rose.
Type locality: Germany.
Habitat: Dead wood, especially of conifers, and old herbaceous stems.
Distribution : Nova Scotia to Pennsylvania, west to Washington and Oregon ; Europe.
- citação bibliográfica
- George Willard Martin, Harold William Rickett. 1949. FUNGI; MYXOMYCETES; CERATIOMYXALES, LICEALES, TEICHIALES, STEMONITALES, PHYSARALES. North American flora. vol 1. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
