Fairy's barf lichen

Appearance

Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified thallus: granular, granulose, granulate [th] upper surface: green(ish) | white(ish) grey [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: uneven, undulate ascomata: absent | present ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial ascoma [mm]: (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 (max) 3.0 ascoma: sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose | pruinose [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: scarce, sparse, fine [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: hyaline, colourless [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (median) 1.0 [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) asci: unitunicate [asc] tholus: thickened [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid cap, ring (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) ascospores: (min) 6.0(median) 8.0 [asp] shape: elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform [asp] length [µm]: (low) 13.0 (high) 27.0 [asp] width [µm]: (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 [asp] septa: present [asp] septa: transversely septate [asp] transversal septa: (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless [asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent conidiomata: absent | present conidia: bacilliform, bacillar [co] length [µm]: (low) 3.5 (high) 4.0 secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: perlatolic acid | thamnolic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

Naming

Common names
peppermint drop lichen, candy lichen
Heideflechte
霜降衣

Original name
Lichen ericetorum L.