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Lepra albescens
Nomenclature
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Family: Unknown familyGenus: Lepra
SUMMARY
Thallus thin to moderately thick, pale grey to dark greenish grey, ± waxy, often zoned at the margin; upper surface smooth to coarsely warted, often rimose-cracked; taste mild; soralia rounded, scattered or continguous, very variable, large, mostly >1 (- 4) mm diam, typically concave and marginate, disc-like, paler than the thallus, or smaller, white to pale grey-white, coarsely granular-sorediate, more rarely convex, becoming ± crowded, pseudocoralloid outgrowths. Very variable, especially in the form of the soralia which may be broad and discoid, smaller, convex and white, contiguous and warted.
Anamorph: no information available.
Teleomorph: ascomata very rare, to 4 mm diam, usually several combined in large sorediate-pruinose warts, concave, opening with deeply lacerate, white thalline margins; discs densely white-pruinose. Asci 1- (to 2-) spored. Ascospores 170-300 x 50-115 µm.
Chemistry: thallus C-, K-, KC-, Pd-, UV- (fatty acids).