Lobothallia melanaspis (Ach.) Hafellner

Acta Bot. Malacitana, 16, 1: 138, 1991. Basionym: Parmelia melanaspis Ach. - Meth. Lich.: 196, 1803.
Synonyms: Aspicilia melanaspis (Ach.) Poelt & Leuckert; Lecanora melanaspis (Ach.) Ach.
Distribution: N - TAA (Nascimbene 2005), Lomb, Piem.
Description: Thallus crustose-placodioid to subfoliose, episubstratic, loosely attached, grey-white to brownish or dark glaucous grey, sometimes darkened at lobe-tips, turning bright green when wet, forming regular to irregular rosettes to 6 cm or more in diam. Lobes elongate, radiating, overlapping, several cm long and 0.4-1.3 mm wide, mostly convex; lower surface white, erhizinate. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, brownish; medulla white, loose, I-. Apothecia lecanorine to 1.8 mm diam., sessile to short-stalked, with a flat to convex, red-brown to brown-black disc, and a prominent, sometimes finally excluded thalline margin. Epithecium reddish brown, N+ emerald green; hymenium colourless, 60-75(-90) μm high; paraphyses, weakly branched, the apical cells swollen and c. 3 μm wide; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, the thin outer coat K/I+ blue, the wall and apical dome K/I-. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 10-13 x (6-)8-10 μm. Pycnidia black, immersed. Conidia hyaline, bacilliform, 4.5-6 x c. 1 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: a mainly boreal-montane species found on acid to slightly calciferous rocks in the inundation zone on shores of lakes, brooks, and streams, mostly in upland areas; to be looked for further throughout the Alps.
Growth form: Crustose placodiomorph
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Periodically submerged (e.g. in creeks)

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Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: very rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: very rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 34460



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (34464)
2002/01/15
marginal lobes



Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
Nunavut, Continental Central Canadian Arctic, Bathurst Inlet Date: 2012-07-00 On cliff in rocky tundra



Juri Nascimbene - CC BY-SA 4.0
Stelvio National Park, Reg. Trentino-Alto Adige Prov. Trento, Italy.
07.2005



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (34464)
2002/01/15


Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php . Courtesy: Anita Stridvall


Leif Stridvall http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php . Courtesy: Anita Stridvall


Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/


Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/