Species:
Peltigera leucophlebia
- Scientific name:
- Peltigera leucophlebia
- Arabic name:
- -
- French name:
- -
- English name:
- Ruffled freckled pelt
- Habitat:
- Terricolous lichen (can grow on soil), moss & rock.
- Surrounding vegetation:
- Moss and ferns.
- Ecological niche:
- Symbiotic; host for the microfungus Pyrenidium actinellum.
- Chromosome Number:
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- Genome size:
- -
- Cap:
- Thallus: foliose, large,with adpressed, convex, laminar cephalodia which cannot readily be detached.
- Gills / pores:
- Lower surface: smooth, with a network of veins which are dark towards the bases of the lobes.
- - Stem:
- -
- Dimensions:
- Lower surface: smooth, with a network of veins which are dark towards the bases of the lobes.
- - Color(s):
- Upper surface: gray or blue-gray to brown when dry, bright green when wet; lower surface: white.
- Texture, other traits:
- -
- Kingdom Fungi
- Phylum Ascomycota
- Class Lecanoromycetes
- Order Peltigerales
- Family Peltigeraceae
- Genus Peltigera
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