Caloplaca stillicidiorum (Vahl) Lynge

Skr. Vidensk. Selsk. Christiania, Kl. I, Math.-Natur., 15: 4, 1921. Basionym: Lichen stillicidiorum Vahl - Icon. Plant. Dan., 6, 18: 6, 1792.
Synonyms: Caloplaca cerina f. chloroleuca Sm.; Caloplaca cerina var. chloroleuca (Sm.) Th. Fr.; Caloplaca cerina var. stillicidiorum (Vahl) Th. Fr.; Placodium cerinum var. stillicidiorum (Vahl) Hepp; Placodium cerinum var. stillicidiorum f. chloroleucum (Sm.) Anzi
Distribution: N - Frl (Hafellner & al. 2008), Ven (Nimis 1994, Nascimbene & Caniglia 2003c, Nascimbene 2005c, 2008c, Nascimbene & Marini 2007), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2006, 2022, Nascimbene 2008b, Bilovitz & al. 2014b), Lomb (Dalle Vedove & al. 2004), Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999), Emil . C - Tosc, Marc (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Umb (Genovesi & al. 2001, Ravera & al. 2006, Panfili 2007), Laz (Ravera 2006, Brackel 2015), Abr (Nimis & Tretiach 1999, Di Nuzzo & al. 2021, Gheza & al. 2021, Vallese & al. 2022), Mol (Nimis & Tretiach 2004, Caporale & al. 2008). S - Camp (Nimis & Tretiach 2004), Bas (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Cal (Puntillo 1996).
Description: Thallus crustose, grey to whitish-pruinose, sometimes poorly evident, very thin, more or less continuous. Apothecia frequent, lecanorine, rounded, sessile, strongly constricted to almost substipitate, 0.5-1(-1.6) mm across, the disc greenish-yellow, sometimes becoming darker olive-yellow with age, mostly concave to flat, yellow-pruinose or rarely epruinose; thalline margin thick, raised, smooth, grey to white-pruinose, mostly entire, sometimes flexuose. Epithecium yellowish, K+ red; hymenium colourless, 70-85 μm high; paraphyses branched in upper part, the apical cells 3-4 μm thick; 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, (10-)12-15(-19) x (4-)6-8.5(-11) μm, the equatorial thickening (“septum”) 5-7(-9) μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K- or K+ faintly violet (in section), C- or C+ violet, KC-, P-; disc of apothecia K+ red. Chemistry: thallus with the Sedifolia-grey pigment; disc of apothecia with parietin (major), fallacinal, emodin, teloschistin and parietinic acid (minor).
Note: a mainly arctic-alpine, circumpolar lichen found on mosses and plant debris in tundra-like habitats, especially in areas with calcareous or basic siliceous rocks, to be looked for in the mountains of Sicilia. This is the only taxon hosting the parasite Stigmidium cerinae, which suggests that it is an independent species. The Caloplaca cerina-like lichens growing on the ground on various substrata such as bryophytes, plant debris, bark of exposed roots and chamaephytes have been molecularly analysed by Šoun & al. (2011), who found that they form four monophyletic groups and six ecotypes, which cannot be always distinguished on the basis of morphological characters. Here we place alpine-subalpine populations growing on calcareous substrata, with pale apothecial discs. See also note on C. cerina.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

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

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
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Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (6967)
2001/11/12



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 41336



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 37153



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0057213b], Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Bohemanflya, on mosses, 100-200 m. Leg. H.Kashiwadani (no. 23344), H. Deguchi & K. Kobayashi, 31.07.1985, det. F. Schumm. Together with Caloplaca tetraspora (Nyl.) H. Olivier in KASHIWADANI: LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NO. 654.



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 37154



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
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P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 37154



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Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Caloplaca_stillicidiorum.htm
France, Mont Cenis, Bellecombe - Savoie
26/12/2014


Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Caloplaca_stillicidiorum.htm
France, Mont Cenis, Bellecombe - Savoie
26/12/2014


Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Caloplaca_stillicidiorum.htm
France, Mont Cenis, Bellecombe - Savoie
26/12/2014


Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Caloplaca_stillicidiorum.htm
France, Mont Cenis, Bellecombe - Savoie
26/12/2014


Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Caloplaca_stillicidiorum.htm
France, Mont Cenis, Bellecombe - Savoie
26/12/2014