Melanelixia albertana (Ahti) O. Blanco, A. Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D. Hawksw. & Lumbsch, 2004
| Common name | Powdered Camouflage Lichen |
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| Code | MELAALB |
| Field Characters | Small foliose chlorolichens. Thalli appressed to the substrate near attachment with lobes ascending. Colonies can be as larger than a human hand. Cortex olive to reddish brown and shiny. Pseudocyphellae absent. Often with numerous lip-shaped soralia producing granular soredia, appearing whitish. Isidia absent, apothecia not known. |
| Similar species & genera |
Melanelixia subaurifera: Often isidiate. Additionally, the soredia are mostly laminal, arising from abrasions to the cortex or isidia that leave yellowish patches. Melanelixia subaurifera has lobes mostly appressed to substrate, whereas M. albertana ascend at the lobe tips. |
| Ecology | Common over trees and downed wood in the parkland and boreal mixedwood. |
| Chemistry | Medulla PD-, UV-, K-, KC+ red, C+ pink (lecanoric acid). |
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- Melanelixia albertana soralia, Chickakoo Natural Area, AB
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- Melanelixia albertana soralia, Chickakoo Natural Area, AB
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- Melanelixia albertana, Chickakoo Natural Area, AB
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- Melanelixia albertana, Prince Albert National Park, SK
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- Melanelixia albertana soralia
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- Melanelixia albertana, Smith area, AB
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- Melanelixia albertana, Lesser Slave Lake area, AB
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- Melanelixia albertana, Lac la Biche area, AB
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- Melanelixia albertana, Lac la Biche area, AB
