Ramonia subsphaeroides (Tav.) Vězda

Folia Geobot. Phytotaxon., 1: 165, 1966. Basionym: Gyalecta subsphaeroides Tav. - Portugaliae Acta Biol., B, 3: 59, 1950.
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Distribution: C - Umb (Ravera & al. 2016), Laz (Nascimbene & Ravera 2014).
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, pale grey-green, continuous to cracked, very thin, often poorly evident. Apothecia 0.2-0.4 mm across, at first immersed in the thallus and almost perithecioid, later adnate and urceolate, with a finally expanded, concave, pinkish to brownish disc, and a thick, prominent, sometimes crenulate, whitish or yellowish white proper margin. Proper exciple well developed laterally, the outer part of small, thin-walled, angular cells, the inner part with rectangular cells ending in periphysoids; hymenium colourless, I+ blue at least in upper part; paraphyses slender, simple, slightly swollen at apex; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, with a single, thin, K/I- wall layer, and an amyloid exoascus without a ring structure. Ascospores 8-10-septate, hyaline, acicular, (45-)50-60 x 4-5 µm, surrounded by a gelatinous halo. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: a Mediterranean-Atlantic epiphytic species, mostly found on Quercus in shaded and humid stands, known from a few localities only. The species likely belongs to Karstenia (see Cannon & al. 2024).
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

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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Herbarium samples


Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (16187)
2002/05/13



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 40943], Italy, Lazio, Prov. Roma, San Vittorino, on Quercus ilex, 170 m. Leg. et det. S. Ravera, 11.03.2014 (ex IS)


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramonia_subsphaeroides.htm
France, livier et Danièle Gonnet - 5/10/2019 - Bocognano, alt. 618 m - Corse - (20) - sur le rhytidome des vieux Quercus ilex


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramonia_subsphaeroides.htm
France, livier et Danièle Gonnet - 5/10/2019 - Bocognano, alt. 618 m - Corse - (20) - sur le rhytidome des vieux Quercus ilex


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramonia_subsphaeroides.htm
France, livier et Danièle Gonnet - 5/10/2019 - Bocognano, alt. 618 m - Corse - (20) - sur le rhytidome des vieux Quercus ilex


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramonia_subsphaeroides.htm
France, livier et Danièle Gonnet - 5/10/2019 - Bocognano, alt. 618 m - Corse - (20) - sur le rhytidome des vieux Quercus ilex


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramonia_subsphaeroides.htm
France, livier et Danièle Gonnet - 5/10/2019 - Bocognano, alt. 618 m - Corse - (20) - sur le rhytidome des vieux Quercus ilex


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramonia_subsphaeroides.htm
France, livier et Danièle Gonnet - 5/10/2019 - Bocognano, alt. 618 m - Corse - (20) - sur le rhytidome des vieux Quercus ilex


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramonia_subsphaeroides.htm
France, livier et Danièle Gonnet - 5/10/2019 - Bocognano, alt. 618 m - Corse - (20) - sur le rhytidome des vieux Quercus ilex