Coppins B.J.
(1983):
A taxonomic study of the lichen genus Micarea in Europe,
Bulletin of the British Museum for Natural History,
11: 17–214
A taxonomic revision is presented for the lichen genus Micarea in Europe, with special emphasis on those
species occurring in the British Isles. In brief, this genus is here circumscribed to include most crustose
lichens with lecideine (biatorine) apothecia, a poorly defined excipulum (sometimes absent altogether) of
radiating paraphysis-like hyphae, a non-granular epithecium, Lecanora-type, 8-spored asci, simple to
multiseptate, hyaline ascospores, and a 'grass-green' phycobiont usually of the …
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