Malmidea cineracea
species of fungus
Malmidea cineracea is a little-known species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Malmideaceae. It is found in Nicaragua.
Taxonomy
The lichen was formally described as a new species in 2015 by the lichenologists Othmar Breuss and Robert Lücking. The type specimen was collected by the first author from a Caribbean lowland rainforest in the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve (San Juan River). The name of the species, cineracea, translates to "ash-greyish", and alludes to the colour of the margins of its apothecia.
Description
Malmidea cineracea grows on bark and has a granulose-isidiate texture with a greenish-grey colour, appearing dull on a whitish, fibrous base layer, and is about 150–200 μm thick. The individual granules range from 70 to 150 μm in diameter, and their cortex, which is colourless, measures 10 to 15 μm thick. The photobiont is chlorococcoid, forming spherical or flattened groups of 30 to 60 μm in diameter, and consists of cells 6 to 8 μm in diameter. The medulla of the lichen has a yellowish hue and does not react to a solution of potassium hydroxide (K−).
The apothecia, or fruiting bodies, are sessile and range from 0.5 to 1.1 mm in diameter and 0.20 to 0.35 mm in height.
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