Microscope images - spore types

Follow these links for lichen micro photographs of the asci and spores and thallus and apothecia structure.
Please click on the images to see species details and larger photographs. N.B. Images are not to scale.

Simple,    1-Septate,    Polarilocular,    Multi-septate,    Submuriform,    Muriform

Simple spores
Degelia plumbea Japewiella tavaresiana, spores Lecanora albella, micro photo, spores Lecanora chlarotera Lecidella elaeochroma, spores Melanohalea exasperata, spores

1-Septate spores
Amandinea punctata, spores Dimerella lutea, ascus and spores Lobaria virens, spore Physcia aipolia, spores Toninia sedifolia, microscope image

Polarilocular spores
Caloplaca cerina, microscope photograph, ascus Caloplaca ferruginea, spores Xanthoria parietina, spores Xanthoria polycarpa, ascus and paraphyses

Multi-septate spores
Arthonia radiata, spore Collema multipartitum Collema tenax var vulgare, spores Enterographa crassa, spore Gomphillus calycioides, micro photo Graphis elegans, ascospore Graphis scripta, old spores, micro photo Lobaria virens, spores Opegrapha herbarum, spores Phaeographis smithii, spores Toninia aromatica, microscope image

Submuriform spores
Collema tenax var vulgare, spores Graphina pauciloculata, spore

Muriform spores
Graphina anguina, spores Graphina anguina, immature spores Gyalecta truncigena, spore Leptogium pulvinatum, spore

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