Caloplaca adelphoparasitica Nimis & Poelt

in Nimis & al., Bull. Soc. linn. Provence, 45: 250, 1994.
Synonyms:
Distribution: S - Si (Nimis & al. 1994).
Description: Thallus crustose, areolate, parasitic on the grey thalli of Kuettlingeria cretensis, consisting of roundish, up to 5 mm wide islands, which often merge into larger patches, attacking the areoles of the host one after the other. Areoles thin, irregularly angular, pale pinkish-orange, flat, mostly up to 0.5 mm in diam. Cortex paraplectenchymatous; medulla loose, poorly developed. Apothecia mostly biatorine, but often sitting on a thick algal layer, some algae penetrating in the weakly differentiated exciple, usually sparse, immersed to sessile, mostly solitary in the areoles, 0.2-0.4 mm across, with a flat to slightly convex, pale reddish-orange disc, and an initially thick, then thinner and finally excluded margin of the same colour as the disc. Proper exciple thin, unclearly radiate-paraplectenchymatous, more or less swollen, the hyphae with rounded to elongated, 3-7 µm thick cell lumina; epithecium brownish, with a finely granulose epipsamma, K+ red; hymenium colourless, c. 80 µm high; paraphyses robust,1.5-2 µm thick, often apically branched and progressively thicker upwards, strongly conglutinated; hypothecium colourless. Asci (6-)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, broadly ellipsoid, the apical wall thicker than the lateral one, and therefore lumina somehow heart-shaped, 10.5-12 x 6.5-8 µm, the equatorial thickening (“septum”) 2-4 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus and apothecia K+ red, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: apothecia with parietin (major), fallacinal, emodin, teloschistin and parietinic acid (minor), corresponding with chemosyndrome A of Søchting (1997).
Note: a well-distinguished calcicolous species growing on Kuettlingeria cretensis, also known from Turkey, to be sought for throughout the Mediterranean, in coastal situations, wherever the host is found, but certainly not common.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
paras Caloplaca cretensis
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: absent

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples


Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (18656)
2001/11/12
isotypus



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (18656)
2001/12/18



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (18656)
2001/12/18
on the host, Caloplaca cretensis



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Pier Luigi Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (18656)



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB_18656], Italy, Sicily, Égadi Islands, Island of Marettimo, loc. Passo del Bue, 12° E, 38° N, c. 50 m, on limestone, parasitic on Caloplaca cretensis. Leg. P.L. Nimis, 24-31-03.1991.