Buellia concinna

Buellia concinna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Caliciaceae
Genus: Buellia
Species: B. concinna
Binomial name
Buellia concinna
Th. Fr.

Buellia concinna (cinnabar button lichen) is a pale yellow to greenish or brownish bullate (bubble-like) to granular crustose lichen that prefers siliceous rock and cliff faces in temperate to subarctic, subalpine and alpine climates throughout the Northern Hemisphere.[1]:229-30[2] In North America, it prefers higher altitudes such as in the Sierra Nevada range.[1]:229-30 Lecideine apothecia are sessile on the thallus and are .2 - .8 mm in diameter with black discs.[2] Lichen spot tests are C+ orange or pinkish, K+ yellow, KC- but CK+ orange, and it is UV+ yellow to ultraviolet light.[1]:229-30 Secondary metabolites include arthothelin, isoarthothelin, 6-O-methylarthothelin, 4, 5-dichloronorlichexanthone, 4, 5-dichloro-6-O-methylnorlichexanthone, asemone, thiophanic acid, gyrophoric acid, lecanoric acid, and orsellinic acid.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  2. 1 2 3 Buellia concina, Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001,
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