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Verrucaria saprophila (A. Massal.) Trevis.

Consp. Verruc.: 8, 1860. Basionym: Amphoridium saprophilum A. Massal. - Symmicta Lich.: 79, 1855.

Synonyms: Thelidium saprophilum (A. Massal.) Servít

Distribution: N - Ven (Lazzarin 2000), TAA.

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic to hemiendosubstratic, continuous, whitish to pale grey, often delimited by black lines. Perithecia black, bottle-shaped, immersed in the rock and leaving deep pits when they fall off, the apical, visible part more or less flattened, 0.16-0.25(-0.3) mm wide. Involucrellum absent; exciple bottle-shaped, subglobose and 0.25-0.4(-0.5) mm wide in lower part, with a clear, long apical neck, the wall brown-black throughout; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid, I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, clavate, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of an endotunica to form a delicate rostrum, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid, (24-)30-33(-36) x (15-)18-21 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a rare, poorly known, southern- to central-European species of rather shaded calcareous rocks, which needs further study.

Growth form: Crustose endolithic

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: extremely rare

Subalpine belt: very 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

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Zschacke, H. (1934) Epigloeaceae, Verrucariaceae und Dermatocarpaceae. In: Dr. L. Rabenhorst‘s Kryptogamen-Flora, Band 9, Abt. 1, Teil 1. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 695 pp. - Public Domain