Pyrenula relicta Etayo & Puntillo

Flora Mediterranea, 21: 243, 2011.
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Distribution: S - Camp (Etayo & Puntillo 2009, 2011, Ravera & al. 2015c).
Description: Thallus crustose, thin, immersed, continuous, olive-green (in shade) to olive-orange, without pseudocyphellae, delimited by a black prothallus. Perithecia black, flattened to (rarely) subglobose, 0.3-0.45 mm across, with a black involucrellum spreading laterally up to 0.7 mm, K-, the ostiole central, sometimes in a small papilla or hole. Exciple black throughout, entire, without crystals amongst the carbonaceous hyphae, c. 30 μm thick laterally; hymenial gel I+ orange (dextrinoid reaction), K/I+ yellow, without oil droplets or crystals; hamathecium of branched and anastomosed periphysoids, later substituted by more or less unbranched paraphyses; ostiole with periphyses. Asci 8-spored, narrowly cylindrical, long-stalked, bitunicate, with tholus, thickened at apex with an internal apical beak, non-amyloid. Ascospores 3-septate, brown, ellipsoid with rounded apices, 14-18 x 6.5-8.5 μm, thick-walled, distoseptate, with angular central cells, the end-cells with lumina directly against the exospore. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV+ orange. Chemistry: unknown.
Note: on twigs and leaves of Buxus in humid sites with a warm-oceanic climate; hitherto known from France (Kakouetta) and Italy (Gole del Bussento).
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: leaves
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Restricted to humid-warm, oceanic areas

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

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

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