THALLUS: smooth, shiny, yellowish-gray to yellowish-green, thin to thick
APOTHECIA: immersed in smooth-sided verrucae, disc pale but barely visible (poriform), epruinose
SPORES: 2 per ascus, 65-150 × 3-52 µm, wall 2-layered, outer layer 1-6 µm, inner wall 2-10 µm, inner wall rough
CHEMISTRY: cortex K+ yellow (stictic acid), C+ orange and UV+ orange-red (thiophaninic acid — a xanthone)
North America and Bermuda.
Smooth, shiny, yellowish-grayish crust lichen with pale apothecia buried in smooth raised warts, on bark in subtropical areas.
On bark of several deciduous trees, including Quercus.
There are four poriform, esorediate, 2-spored Pertusaria listed for the area in Nash, two of which have the C+ orange reaction. The other one, P. pustulata, has smooth inner spore wall and dark epithecium, this one, P. xanthodes has rough inner spore wall and pale epithecium.
Pertusaria xanthodes je porost[1], co go ôpisoł Müll. Arg. Pertusaria xanthodes nŏleży do zorty Pertusaria i familije Pertusariaceae.[2][3] Żŏdne podgatōnki niy sōm wymianowane we Catalogue of Life.[2]
Pertusaria xanthodes je porost, co go ôpisoł Müll. Arg. Pertusaria xanthodes nŏleży do zorty Pertusaria i familije Pertusariaceae. Żŏdne podgatōnki niy sōm wymianowane we Catalogue of Life.