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Candelaria concolor
Candleflame Lichen
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0317 1676 (2017-03-19)Copyright © 2017 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Mar 11, 2017
latitude 46.35907 longitude 13.69871
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location
Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, right bank of river Soča, near abandoned farm house Strgulc, Soča 47, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: ? - Habitat: mountain pasture, slightly inclined mountain slope, south aspect; sunny, relatively warm and dry place; colluvial, skeletal, calcareous ground; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopy; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevations 610 m (2.000 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: Bark of living branch of a standing alone Ostrya carpinifolia. Comment: This micro-beauty usually appears in discrete, suborbicular, flat cushions, which are quite small, less than 10 mm in diameter. But, it can be also abundant, in larger, irregular, widespread fragments, sometimes confluent and covering the whole small branches circumferentially. When looked through a hand lens it is an incredible natural filigree of golden lobes set in a delicate and stochastic ornament. The lobes are attached to the bark with scattered, white, simple rhizines. This is one of lichens, which can be easily recognized by habit only, without microscope and chemical tests. Eventually it can be confused with very small lobed Xanthoria species, where a test with K solves the dilemma. Candelaria concolor is K negative. Ref.: (1) V. Wirth, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil.1., Ulmer (1995), p 242. (2) F.S. Dobson, Lichens, The Richmonds Publishing Ca.LTD (2005), p 110. (3) C.W.Smith, et all, The lichens of Great Britain and Ireland, The British Lichen Society, (2009), p 275. (4) I.M. Brodo, S.D. Sharnoff, S. Sharnoff, Lichens of North America, Yale Uni. Press (2001), p 205.camera Nikon D700/Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_1037/2017_DSC7062 photo category: Fungi - lichen
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Candleflame Lichen, Lemon Lichen (photographer)
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