Pre microscopic clues:
Thallus yellow, crustose and lobed
Apothecia yellow, lecanorine and up to 1mm.
Apothecia K+ magenta
The above K+ magenta reaction suggests that the Lichen is Caloplaca or Protoblastenia.
Hymenium 100µm
Ascus 57x12µm
Spores 10x6µm and polaricular
Spores are colourless and simple with Protoblastenia which leaves us with just Caloplaca:
Thallus corticate (having a cortex)
On Rock
Cortex yellow K+ purple
Placodioid-lobate
Lobes less than 2mm, Ascospores ellipse shaped
Marginal lobes 2-5 times longer than wide with no blackening
Lobes 1mm or more
Lobes yellow with some white pruina, bloated, about 2x longer than wide on calcareous rock
Caloplaca saxicola |
Caloplaca saxicola apothecia section |
Caloplaca saxicola ascospore |
In the microscope they look really a bit different of what I imagined.
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