Pertusaria glomerata (Ach.) Schaer.

Lich. Helv. Spicil., 2: 66, 1826. Basionym: Porina glomerata Schleich. ex Ach. - Lichenogr. Univ.: 310, 1810.
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Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Hafellner 2000), Ven (Caniglia & al. 1999), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004), VA (Nascimbene & al. 2021), Emil. C - Tosc (Benesperi & al. 2007)
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, whitish grey to yellowish white, smooth to mostly verrucose-tuberculate, often somehow shining. Apothecia frequent, lecanorine-perithecioid, immersed in subglobose, strongly constricted, 1-1.5 mm broad thalline warts, 1(-3) per wart, the disc punctiform, 0.1-0.2 mm across, brown-black, yellow-brown when young. Epithecium brown-black, K+ violet; hymenium and hypothecium colourless; paraphyses thin, densely branched, free. Asci (2-)4-spored, broadly cylindrical, the apex with a broad ocular chamber, the outer sheath K/I+ blue, otherwise K/I-, with an inner extensible layer, Pertusaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, thick-walled, (50-)70-125(-170) x 25-50(-60) µm. Pycnidia dark, immersed. Conidia bacilliform, 8-11 x c. 0.5 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K+ yellow, then rapidly red, C-, KC+ faintly yellow-red, P+ yellow, UV+ glaucous. Chemistry: norstictic acid and variable amounts of stictic acid.
Note: an arctic-alpine lichen found on more or less calciferous soil rich in humus and on plant debris in sites with a long snow-lie near and above treeline; probably restricted to the Alps and the northern Apennines in Italy.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rather rare
Subalpine belt: 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

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Herbarium samples


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Erichsen C.F.E. 1936. Pertusariaceae. - In: Dr. L. Rabenhorsts Kryptogamenflora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Bd. IX, Abt. 5, T. 1. Akad. Verlagsges., Leipzig, pp. 321-512, 513-728. - Public Domain



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2001/12/10



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Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
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