Buellia badia

Buellia badia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Caliciaceae
Genus: Buellia
Species: B. badia
Binomial name
buellia badia
(Fr.) A. Massal.

Buellia badia (parasitic button lichen) is a dark chocolate-brown crustose areolate lichen of Europe, northern Africa, and North America that starts as a parasite growing on other lichens, such as Aspicilia phaea, gradually then becoming independent growing on rock (sometimes also on hardwood.[1]:229 [2] Areoles may be contiguous or dispersed.[2] Lecideine apothecia are .3 -.9 mm in diameter with black discs, that are initially flat, then become strongly convex as they age.[2] Lichen spot tests are all negative.[1]:229 There are no known [secondary metabolites]] (as of 2001).[2] There are no known secondary metabolites as of (2001).[2] It is similar in appearance and other ways to the chocolate brown Dimelaena californica, which also starts of as a parasite on other lichens, and has spores of similar shape, size, and internal construction.[2] D. californica has not been found on wood, is more preferential as to the lichens it starts off growing on (usually Dimeleana radiate, and commonly has norstictic acid as a secondary metabolite.[2] Some think they should be included in a new, third genus.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Buellia badia, Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001,
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