ITALIC 7.0

Peltula rodriguesii (Cromb.) Büdel

Lichenologist, 21: 293, 1989. Basionym: Heppia rodriguesii Cromb. - J. Linn. Soc. Bot., 15: 436, 1876.

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Distribution: N - Lig.

Description: Thallus squamulose, consisting of up 2 mm wide, 250-300 µm thick, flat to convex, olive-yellowish to yellowish brown, 3-5 times lobed, peltate squamules with smooth margins. Upper cortex absent; epinecral layer 7-10 µm thick; medulla white, with numerous air spaces; lower cortex proso- to paraplectenchymatous, 20-25 µm thick, of more or less isodiametrical cells. Apothecia immersed in the squamules, at first punctiform, then expanded and to 0.3 mm across, with a reddish brown disc and a slightly raised thalline margin. Exciple poorly developed, to 8 µm thick; epithecium brownish; hymenium colourless, 180-250 µm high, I+ blue-green turning wine-red; paraphyses mostly simple, anastomosing, 1.5-2.5 µm thick, the apical cell slightly swollen; hypothecium colourless, 25-35 µm high. Asci >100-spored, clavate to obclavate, unitunicate-rostrate with a distinct, fringed external tunica, the wall I+ orange, K/I+ intensively blue. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 3-6 x 2-3.5 µm. Pycnidia immersed, cerebriform. Conidia fusiform, c. 1.5 x 0.5 µm. Photobiont cyanobacterial, chroococcoid, one-celled. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on basic siliceous rocks in the Mediterranean belt; the Italian record is the only one known from Europe.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: cyanobacteria, filamentous (e.g. Nostoc, Scytonema)

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Subcontinental: restricted to areas with a dry-subcontinental climate (e.g. dry Alpine valleys, parts of Mediterranean Italy)

On otherwise dry surfaces with short periods of water seepage after rain

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Aridity:

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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Harrie Sipman – Source http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/sipman

Harrie Sipman – Source http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/sipman