Vezdaea

Crustose lichens weakly lichenized with a trebouxioid alga; thallus granular (goniocystose), often scarcely evident, apothecia rounded and sometimes lumpy, lacking any vestige of a rim, fertile essentially to the margins; hymenium formed of straight or sparsely branched, dense paraphyses not embedded in gel, these sometimes wrapping around the asci; asci clavate to cylindrical, thin-walled, the apex scarcely thickened, IKI- or + light to medium blue; spores 8 per ascus, colourless, elliptical, oblong, or acicular, simple to 11-septate, sometimes with roughened walls.

References: Purvis et al. 1992.

Thallus of translucent goniocysts, light to deep green, 20-30  µ wide, contiguous, covering areas 3-10 mm wide; spores non-septate, ovate to elliptic, 12-16 × 6-8.5  µ; apothecia adnate, medium to dark red brown; hymenium with light red-brown pigments in the upper ¼; a rare species known in BC only from the inland rainforests, to be sought …[Vezdaea rubescens Björk ined.]