Flavoparmelia caperata

Caperatflechte

The Caperatflechte ( Flavoparmelia caperata, Syn: Parmelia caperata ) is a mainly growing on tree bark, large Blattflechtenart. The epithet is derived ( wrinkled ) from the Latin " caperatus " her.

Description

The Caperatflechte has a großlappigen thallus, which is gray-green to yellowish green on the upper side. The diameter of the bearing or irregular rosettigen can reach up to 20 cm and the bearing tabs are rounded off, and to 10 mm wide. The lichen has punctate, granular stain Oral, which can cover large areas, especially in the wavy - wrinkled bearing center. In hand, it is black with rhizines, on the edge with an approximately 2 mm wide brown, rhizinenfreien zone. Fruiting bodies ( apothecia ) are rare.

Possibilities of confusion, particularly with its apparently only since the 1990s, from the west immigrant in northwestern Germany Flavoparmelia soredians ( but has the smaller storage cloth and fine-grained Soredia, is also nestled close to the substrate ).

Location and distribution

The Caperatflechte inhabited mainly moderately to markedly acidic bark of free-standing deciduous trees (partly mosses ), rarely also silicate rock. In Europe it is found from southern Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. Because of their high sensitivity to acidic air pollutants they went into the depths often sharply, in particular as a result of flue gas desulfurization she is now back often. It is, therefore, how many more species of lichen, a bioindicator for air pollution.

Others

The Bryologisch - lichenologische Association for Central Europe named the Caperatflechte as ringworm of 2006