Amandinea adjuncta
≡*Buellia adjuncta Th.Fr., Bot. Notiser 1866: 14 (1866).
Description : Lichenicolous. Apothecia black, sessile, 0.2–0.5 mm diam. Epithecium dark-brown. Hymenium colourless 70–80 μm tall, without oil droplets. Paraphyses 2–2.5 μm thick, apices dark-brown, expanded to 6 μm diam. Hypothecium dark-bown. Asci cylindrical to broadly clavate, 45–55 × 17–24 μm. Ascospores 1-septate, Buellia -type, slightly constricted at septum, 14–18 × 7.5– 9 μm. Conidiomata unknown.
A: Port Ross, Laurie Harbour, on bird-perch rocks, collected G. Einar Du Rietz 2229b :1 (UPS, LD), 27.iii.1927. Known also from northern Norway, the Faeroes Is, Greenland, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska (Hafellner 1979, 2004a; Alstrup & Hawksworth 1990; Foucard et al. 2002).
Bipolar
Host : On Caloplaca sp. [identified by S.Y. Kondratyuk, pers. comm.]. Elsewhere known on Lecanora straminea and Rinodina olivaceobrunnea (Vouaux 1913c: 462; Hafellner & Poelt 1976; Hafellner 1979: 50–51; 2004a: 180–181; Alstrup & Hawksworth 1990; Foucard et al. 2002).
Illustration : Hafellner & Poelt (1976: 247); Nordic Lichen Flora Vol. 2 (2002: 90).
* Amandinea adjuncta is characterised by: the lichenicolous habit; the dark-brown hypothecium and epithecium; and Buellia -type, 1-septate ascospores, 14–18 × 7–9 μm.
