Key to foliose lichens 1a Thallus gelatinous when humid; photobiont Nostoc in chains, embedded in a gelatinous layer, rarely other

gelatinous photobiont genera, with scattered cells; thallus homoiomerous, without arachnoid, alga-free medulla ---2 1b Thallus not gelatinous; photobiont green or bluegreen, when Nostoc, then in glomerules with little jelly; thallus heteromerous, with arachnoid, alga-free medulla ---6 2a Photobiont Nostoc, with cells arranged in chains ---3 2b Photobiont different, with cells arranged in small groups or separate ---5 3a Thallus without cortex; spores transversely septate to muriform ---Collema 3b Thallus without cortex; spores simple ---Staurolemma 3c Thallus with a pseudoparenchymatic cortex of one cell layer (in microscopical section) ---4 4a Spores transversely septate or muriform; thallus often under 0.5 mm thick ---Leptogium 4b Spores simple; thallus over 0.5 mm thick ---Physma 5a Thallus attached by central holdfast (umbilicus); on rock (provisionally treated group; other genera may key out here) ---Thyrea 5b Thallus attached by various spots of its lower surface; over terricolous mosses ---Omphalina 6a (1) Thallus attached by central holdfast (umbilicus); on rock ---7 6b Thallus attached not by umbilicus, but by rhizines or otherwise, attachment points spread all over the underside; on various substrates ---9 7a Thallus surface bright yellow ---Placomaronea 7b Thallus surface grey to brown or dark brown ---8 8a Perithecia present, immersed in the thallus, producing simple, hyaline ascospores ---Dermatocarpon 8b Apothecia present or no ascocarps present ---Umbilicaria 9a Thallus surface yellow to orange, K+ dark violet or K- ---10 9b Thallus surface dark brown or grey to greenish- or yellowish grey, K- or K+ yellowish ---15 10a Thallus surface yellow, K-; ascospores simple ---11 10b Thallus surface yellow to orange, K+ dark violet; ascospores polarilocular ---13 11a Thallus lobes rounded with concentric ridges; algae bluegreen ---Coccocarpia 11b Thallus lobes elongate or much divided, without concentric ridges; algae green ---12 12a Thallus lobes hardly over 1 mm wide ---Candelaria 12b Thallus lobes usually over 1 mm wide ---Pseudoparmelia

13a Ascospores bilocular ---14 13b Ascospores tetralocular ---Teloschistes 14a Upper and lower cortex paraplectenchymatic, with rounded lumina much wider than walls ---Xanthoria 14b Upper and lower cortex prosoplectenchymatic, with elongate lumina not wider than walls ---Josefpoeltia 14c Upper cortex paraplectenchymatic, lower cortex prosoplectenchymatic ---Xanthomendoza 15a (9) Lower side smooth, with cortex, with or without rhizines ---16 15b Lower side more or less tomentose, with or without cortex, with or without rhizines ---70 16a Upper surface of lobes with white, rounded or elongate pseudocyphellae ---17 16b Upper surface of lobes without pseudocyphellae ---20 17a Thallus yellowish to greenish grey, with usnic acid in the cortex ---Flavopunctelia 17b Thallus whitish grey, with atranorin in the cortex ---18 18a Pseudocyphellae elongate, more or less connected in a reticulate pattern (if pseudocyphellae producing soredia or isidia, see Parmelia) ---Pyxine 18b Pseudocyphellae rounded, without reticulate pattern ---19 19a Lobes ascending, usually over 1 cm wide; lower side black ---Cetrelia 19b Lobes appressed to substrate, under 1 cm wide; lower side often white, sometimes black ---Punctelia 20a Cilia present on the lobe margins; rhizines present or absent on lower side ---21 20b Cilia absent from the margins; rhizines present or absent on lower side ---34 21a Cilia with inflated base ---22 21b Cilia without inflated base ---23 22a Upper side of thallus yellowish green; usnic acid present ---Relicina 22b Upper side of thallus whitish grey; atranorin present ---Bulbothrix 23a Marginal rhizines or cilia white or grey, sometimes black, but then usually with perpendicular side branchlets, felty; ascospores one-septate, dark ---Heterodermia 23b Marginal rhizines or cilia black, mostly unbranched; ascospores simple, colourless ---24 24a Rhizines one or more times dichotomously branched ---Hypotrachyna 24b Rhizines unbranched, sometimes partly irregularly branched, or absent ---25 25a Thallus lobes linear, with parallel margins, more or less dichotomously branched ---26 25b Thallus lobes elongate, with irregularly bent margins, irregularly branched ---28

26a Lower side brown, without rhizines; terricolous lichen with upright lobes ---Cetraria 26b Lower side black, with or without rhizines; predominantly epiphytic with spreading lobes ---27 27a Lobes regularly dichotomously branched; apothecia concave when young ---Everniastrum 27b Lobes irregularly branched; apothecia flat to convex when young ---Cetrariastrum 28a Thallus lobes elongate, mostly under 2 mm wide, flattened ---29 28b Thallus lobes short and wide, mostly over 5 mm wide, often ascending ---31 29a Cilia robust, tapering; upper surface white-maculate ---Canomaculina 29b Cilia slender, not tapering; upper surface uniformly grey ---30 30a Medulla yellow to orange ---Myelochroa 30b Medulla white ---Parmelinopsis 31a Underside near lobe tips without rhizines, naked in a several mm wide zone ---Parmotrema 31b Underside rhizinate to the margin ---32 32a Lobe tips appressed to substratum; rhizines of uniform length, shorter towards the lobe tips ---Parmotremopsis 32b Lobe tips ascending; rhizines of variable length, often dimorphic ---33 33a Underside near margin brown, with scattered rhizines of variable length ---Rimelia 33b Underside near margin pale, with dense, short rhizines mixed with scattered longer ones ---Rimeliella 34a (20) Rhizines completely absent ---35 34b Rhizines present, frequent or scattered ---41 35a Thallus lobes hollow, with cavity between medulla and black lower cortex; above 3000 m ---36 35b Thallus lobes compact; at various elevations ---37 36a Thallus with perforations on upper side ---Menegazzia 36b Thallus without perforations on upper side ---Hypogymnia 37a Thallus lobes erect, attached only near base; lower side often white near the tips, black lower down; epiphytic ---Pseudevernia 37b Thallus appressed to substrate; lower side black; epiphytic or epilithic ---38 38a Upper side yellowish or greenish grey, with usnic acid; ascospores hyaline, simple; epilithic at high altitude ---Psiloparmelia 38b Upper side pale to dark grey, without usnic acid; ascospores grey, 1-3-septate; widespread ---39

39a Thallus K+ yellow (cortex containing atranorin); apothecia with dark hypothecium; thallus lobes elongate and laterally confluent ---Dirinaria 39b Thallus K- (cortex lacking atranorin); apothecia with pale hypothecium; thallus lobes not laterally confluent ---Hyperphyscia

41a (34) Thallus pale yellowish on both sides; lower side with pseudocyphellae; rhizines scarce ---Cetraria 41b Thallus not pale yellowish on both sides; lower side without pseudocyphellae ---42 42a Rhizines absent from a wide marginal zone, usually scarce and restricted to small patches; thallus lobes wide, often over 10 mm wide ---Parmotrema 42b Rhizines present till (close to the) lobe margins, regularly spread all over the surface; thallus lobes usually up to 2 mm wide, rather narrow and deeply dissected ---43 43a Rhizines frequently dichotomously branched ---Hypotrachyna 43b Rhizines mostly unbranched or a few times irregularly branched ---44 44a Apothecia completely black, without grey thalline margin when well developed ---Pyxine 44b Apothecia with grey thalline margin ---45 45a Ascospores one-septate, grey to brown; thallus closely appressed to the substrate (except Heterodermia with pale lower side); lower side whitish or black ---46 45b Ascospores simple, hyaline; thallus mostly loosely appressed to the substrate; lower side brown to black ---49 46a Thallus more or less ascendant; cortex prosoplectenchymatic, composed of longitudinally arranged hyphae; upper surface faintly longitudinally striate ---Heterodermia 46b Thallus flattened; cortex paraplectenchymatic, or prosoplectenchymatic but then hyphae not longitudinally arranged; upper surface not striate ---47 47a Apothecia with dark hypothecium; thallus closely applicated to substrate, with adjoined lobes almost forming a crust, usually with divaricatic acid, difficult to separate from substrate and lower side thus difficult to observe ---Dirinaria 47b Apothecia with pale hypothecium; thallus less closely applicated to substrate and clearly foliose, without divaricatic acid, more easily separable from substrate and therefore lower side easily observable ---48 48a Upper surface pale grey, K+ yellow; medulla always white ---Physcia 48b Upper surface dark grey, K-negative; medulla sometimes orange-red ---Phaeophyscia 49a Thallus upper surface whitish grey, with atranorin, usually without usnic acid ---50 49b Thallus upper surface yellowish- to greenish grey, with usnic acid, without atranorin ---53

50a Lower surface pale brown to brown; ascospores less than 10 m long ---51 50b Lower surface dark brown to black; ascospores over 10 m long ---52 51a Thallus closely appressed to rock ---Paraparmelia 51b Thallus loosely appressed to bark, rarely on rock ---Pseudoparmelia 52a Pycnoconidia more or less bifusiform, to c. 8 m long; below 3000 m ---Canoparmelia 52b Pycnoconidia curved, 10-20 m long; above 3000 m ---Parmeliopsis 53a Thallus lobes with rounded tips, over 2 mm wide, flat to concave; epiphytic or on mossy rock ---Flavoparmelia 53b Thallus lobes with slightly incised tips, often under 2 mm wide, flat to convex; saxicolous or terricolous ---Xanthoparmelia 70a (15) Lobes with tomentose or felty lower side, at least partly so; veins, rhizines or cilia sometimes present ---71 70b Lobes with naked, smooth lower side; veins and rhizines absent, cilia occasionally present ---83 71a Thallus linear, with thick tomentose layer throughout on underside ---Anzia 71b Thallus irregularly lobed, with thin or interrupted tomentose layer on underside, at least near the margins, or with felty lower side ---72 72a Thalli with usually large, over 5 mm wide lobes, mostly ascending or loosely appressed; algae blue-green or green ---73 72b Thalli with small, rarely over 5 mm wide, lobes, usually closely appressed; algae always blue-green; apothecia ---76 73a Small, white to yellow points without tomentum present on lower side (cyphellae or pseudocyphellae) ---74 73b Lower side continuously tomentose, or with larger and vaguely delimited patches without tomentum (cyphellae or pseudocyphellae absent) ---75 74a Cyphellae present: white spots on lower side with prominent, raised margin ---Sticta 74b Pseudocyphellae present: yellow spots on lower side without raised margin ---Pseudocyphellaria 75a Thallus with larger, not sharply delimited, pale, tomentum-free areas on lower side; veins absent; maculae or pseudocyphellae absent from upper side; usually epiphytic ---Lobaria 75b Like a; maculae or pseudocyphellae present on upper side ---Lobariella 75c Thallus continuously tomentose on lowerside; wider or narrower, vein-like, raised bands on lower side present; usually on soil ---Peltigera 76a Upper surface tomentose; tomentum on lower side often restricted to marginal patches; uncommon ---Erioderma 76b Upper surface glabrous; tomentum on lower side usually spread over most of the thallus ---77

77a Lower side veined with glabrous veins and felty interspaces ---Solorina 77b Lower side with tomentum usually spread over most of the thallus ---78 78a Cortex composed of longitudinally arranged hyphae; thallus often with concentric ridges; apothecia without thalline margin ---Coccocarpia 78b Cortex not composed of longitudinally arranged hyphae; thallus without concentric ridges; apothecia often with thalline margin ---79 79a Thallus closely appressed to substrate, almost crustose; lobes usually to 1(-2) mm wide ---80 79b Thallus loosely appressed with ascending margins, distinctly foliose; lobes usually over 2 mm wide ---82 80a Ascospores over 100 per ascus; photobiont cells in tetrads or single ---Phyllopeltula 80b Ascospores 8 per ascus; photobiont cells in densely winding chains ---81 81a Thallus without distinct prothallus; apothecia always with thalline margin ---Pannaria 81b Thallus with distinct, often tomentose, prothallus; apothecia with or without thalline margin ---Parmeliella 82a Apothecia on upper surface, often absent ---Leioderma 82b Apothecia on lower side, at the tips of lobules, usually present ---Nephroma 83a (70) Thallus scarcely dissected, lobes hemispherical; basidiolichen, without ascocarps ---Dictyonema 83b Thallus strongly dissected, lobes usually much longer than wide; ascolichen, apothecia often present ---84 84a Epiphytic or among moss; cilia present ---Heterodermia 84b Terricolous at high elevations; cilia absent ---85 85a Lobes wide, c. 5 mm; apothecia immersed in the lobes, brown ---Solorina 85b Lobes narrow, c. 1 mm; apothecia stalked, pink ---Phyllobaeis
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