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Caloplaca sbarbaronis B. de Lesd.

Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., 96: 173, 1949

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Distribution: N - Lig.

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, dirty white to ochre-white, relatively thick, granulose-subsquamulose, consisting of small, contiguous (rarely scattered), angular areoles separated by thin fissures. Apothecia 0.3-0.5 mm across, reddish brown, sessile, with an initially flat then convex (sometimes finally almost hemispherical) disc and a very thin, concolorous, soon excluded proper margin. Epithecium yellowish, granulose, K+ red, C+ red; hymenium colourless, 130-150 μm high; paraphyses rather lax, mostly simple, capitate; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, clavate, functionally unitunicate, apically thickened with a broad internal beak, the inner part of apex and external cap I+ blue, Teloschistes-type. Ascospores 2-celled, polarilocular, hyaline, ellipsoid, 16-27(-30) x 9-13 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-; apothecia K+ red, C+ red. Chemistry: thallus without lichens substances; apothecia with chlorinated anthraquinones.

Note: a poorly-known, apparently coastal, silicicolous species. Claude Roux (in litt.) has examined the type material in MARSS: the brownish apothecia react C+ red (chlorinated anthraquinones), and the ascospores measure 16-27(-30) x 9-13 µm.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

Taxon bound to maritime-coastal situations

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: very rare

Dry mediterranean belt: very rare

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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

Field Museum of Natural History (F) - Public Domain

Italy, Liguria