Pertusaria


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Noun1.Pertusaria - crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus
fungus genus - includes lichen genera
family Pertusariaceae, Pertusariaceae - a fungus family of division Lichenes
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Laundon corticolous Physconia venusta (Ach.) Poelt corticolous Pertusaria amara (Ach.) Nyl.
Opegrapha vulgata, Parmotrema gardneri, Pertusaria pustulata, Porpidia albocaerulescens, and Trapelia placodioides.
Las especies menos frecuentes fueron Physia erumpens, Erioderma sp., Pertusaria sp.4 y Lopezaria sp., cada una con solo 6 [cm.sup.2] de cobertura (0.01%).
Protocetraric acid (200 mg) was isolated from Pertusaria albescens (18 g) under microwave-irradiations (Synthewave[R] 402 Prolabo) (Bonny et al., 2009), using a 5 min successive extraction with n-heptane (2 x 50 ml) and THF (4 x 50 ml).
Eight are S2S3: Anisomeridium polypori, Bacidia rubella, Calicium parvum, Chaenothecopsis debilis, Flavopunctelia soredica, Pertusaria alpina, Phaeophyscia ciliata, Physciella chloantha.
In contrast, those who had lower cover in increasing order were Pertusaria sp., Candelaria concolor, Leptogium brebisonii, Parmotrema pilosum, Pyxine berteriana and Dirinaria applanata.
Spore producing lichens (such as Pertusaria spp.) appear to take longer to colonise old rough bark of tree trunks than they do thin twig bark.