apothecia_amount_abundant
abundant
disc black, typically epruinose to very faintly pruinose, rarely with a bluish tinge caused by a dense white pruina; initially lecideine with a thin proper margin, soon lecanorine, engulfed in and obscured by a thick, often +/-discontinuous thalline margin which becomes irregularly crenate with age; thalline exciple with cortex, indistinct photobiont layer and medulla, filled with abundant minute crystals (same reactions as the thallus); proper exciple initially conspicuous, dark brown to strongly carbonized, progressively reduced with age, fading to brown or even hyaline, extending from a deep, fuscous brown, or very rarely reddish brown hypothecium that extends into a short, fuscous brown to rarely reddish brown stipe at the base; subhymenium not distinctly differentiated from hypothecium, inspersed with few, inconspicuous oil droplets
Diploicia neotropica
Diploicia neotropica