ITALIC 7.0

Rhizocarpon simillimum (Anzi) Lettau

Hedwigia, 52: 156, 1912. Basionym: Buellia simillima Anzi - Comm. Soc. Critt. Ital., 2, 1: 19, 1864.

Synonyms: Buellia subbadia Anzi; Catocarpus simillimus (Anzi) Arnold; Rhizocarpon atroalbum var. africanum Flagey; Rhizocarpon sublestum (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Distribution: N - Frl (TSB 4365), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem (Giordani & al. 2014), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999, Valcuvia 2000, Matteucci & al. 2015c), Emil (Fariselli & al. 2020). C - Tosc, Sar (Nöske 2000). S - Camp (Garofalo & al. 1999), Cal (Puntillo 1996).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, grey-brown to dark brown, rimose-areolate, delimited by a black prothallus, forming patches up to 5 cm in diam. Areoles contiguous or scattered, rounded to angular, mostly flat, up to 0.3 mm in diam. Medulla white, I+ blue. Apothecia round to angular, up to 0.8 mm across, with a more or less flat, epruinose disc, and a thin, usually persistent, sometimes finally excluded proper margin. Proper exciple brownish black, K+ reddish violet; epithecium brown to brown-black, without crystals, K- or K+ faintly reddish violet; hymenium colourless; hypothecium dark brown, K+ reddish violet. Asci 8-spored, clavate, fissitunicate, with a well-developed tholus, lacking an ocular chamber, Rhizocarpon-type. Ascospores 1-septate, soon dark brown-black, ellipsoid, 10-16 x 5-8 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: medulla K- or K+ pale yellow, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: without lichen substances, or with variable amounts of stictic acid.

Note: on steeply inclined surfaces of siliceous, base-rich or slightly calciferous rocks in upland areas; present both in the Alps and along the Apennines, south to the mountains of Calabria.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rare

Subalpine belt: rather common

Oromediterranean belt: very rare

Montane belt: rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

Einar Timdal - Source: http://nhm2.uio.no/lav/web/index.html - CC BY-NC