Diderma crustaceum

Sporangia:- sessile gregarious, crowded, globose to 1mm diameter, often forming a pulvinate colony.

 

Outer layer of Peridium calcerous, fragile, rough, breaking away readily and distorted by pressure. Inner layer blue irredescent and remote from outer.

 

Columella:- small white, often lacking not always obvious.

 

Capillitium:- sparsely branched with few anastomoses, dark, fading toward the tips.

 

Spores:- Dark on mass and finely spiny, lighter by transmitted light.

Diderma crustaceum is listed in the following regions:

South Coast

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Species information

  • Diderma crustaceum Scientific name
  • Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Non-Invasive
  • Machine learning

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