ITALIC 7.0

Micarea intrusa (Th. Fr.) Coppins & H. Kilias

in Coppins, Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. 11, 2: 138, 1983. Basionym: Lecidea intrusa Th. Fr. - Bot. Not.: 152, 1867.

Synonyms: Carbonea intrusa (Th. Fr.) Rambold & Triebel; Catillaria intrusa (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr.; Conida intrusa (Th. Fr.) Sacc. & D. Sacc.; Lecidea aphanoides Nyl.; Lecidea contrusa Vain. nom. illegit.; Lecidea melaphana Nyl.; Lecideopsis intrusa (Th. Fr.) Zopf; Scoliciosporum intrusum (Th. Fr.) Hafellner

Distribution: N - Frl, TAA.

Description: Thallus crustose, black or black brown, areolate-granulose, forming insular, small patches on and inbetween other crustose lichens. Apothecia biatorine, 0.15-0.4 mm across, black, often glossy, adnate, with a convex disc and an indistinct, soon excluded proper margin. Proper exciple brownish in outer part, paler within, of radiating, branched and anastomosing hyphae; epithecium scarcely differentiated from the hymenium, olive-green to bluish green, K+ intensifying green, N+ red to pale violet; hymenium colourless or pigmented in upper part, not inspersed, 40-50 μm high, the hymenial gel K/I- (but gel and outer layer of empty asci K/I+ blue); paraphyses numerous, branched and anastomosing, c. 1.5 μm thick at mid-level, with only slightly enlarged tips; hypothecium colourless to olivaceous, up to 200 μm high, in the upper part sometimes orange and K+ purple (Intrusa-yellow pigment). Asci 8-spored, clavate to cylindrical-clavate, with an unstained wall and a K/I+ blue outer layer and apical dome, the latter with a non-amyloid, cylindrical axial mass. Ascospores 1-celled to 1(-2)-septate, ellipsoid to fusiform, sometimes slightly curved, hyaline or brownish when overmature, (7-)12-17(-19) x 4-6 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid, the cells mostly (7-)10-18(-21) μm wide. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a probably circumpolar, arctic-alpine species, invading the thalli of different crustose silicicolous lichens; for further details see Hafellner (2004). According to Miadlikowska & al. (2014) this species does not belong to Scoliciosporum and, pending further study, should be best treated as a member of Micarea.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

paras silicicolous crustose lichens

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: extremely rare

Subalpine belt: extremely rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

Jason Hollinger – Public Domain – Source: https://lichenportal.org/cnalh/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3768162

Canada, Ontario, Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Talus Lake

Jason Hollinger – Public Domain – Source: https://lichenportal.org/cnalh/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3768162

Canada, Ontario, Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Talus Lake