Kuettlingeria soralifera (Vondrák & Hrouzek) I.V. Frolov, Vondrák & Arup

in Frolov & al., J. Syst. Evol. 59, 3: 468, 2020. Basionym: Caloplaca soralifera Vondrák & Hrouzek - Graphis Scripta, 18: 8, 2006.
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Distribution: N - TAA (Thor & Nascimbene 2007, Nascimbene & al. 2022).
Description: Thallus crustose-areolate to subsquamulose, episubstratic, dark to pale grey, often whitish-pruinose. Areoles flat to convex, 0.2-0.8 mm wide, (50-)150-250 μm thick, with dark grey to violet-grey marginal soralia which, albeit rarely, may finally cover the whole thallus surface. Soredia dark violet grey, (22-)26-42(-50) μm in diam. Cortex either inconspicuous, almost completely obscured by colourless crystals insoluble in K and soluble in N, or well-developed, up to 35 μm thick, paraplectenchymatous, pale greyish toward the surface (K+, N+ violet), with a 5–8.5 μm thick epinecral layer; algal layer continuous, without crystals. Apothecia zeorine, 0.2-0.7(-1) mm across, with an orange to brownish orange disc, a yellow to orange proper margin, and a pale grey, usually white-pruinose thalline margin. Thalline exciple with abundant algae, indistinctly corticate, with colourless crystals insoluble in K and soluble in N; proper exciple well-developed, of long and narrow, thin-walled cells; epithecium brownish orange, K+ red; hymenium colourless, 68–77(−110) μm high; paraphyses sparingly branched and rarely anastomosing, 1.5-3 μm thick in middle and lower parts, the apical cells swollen, up to 6.5 μm wide; hypothecium colourless, often inspersed with oil droplets. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-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, 11-15(-17) x 4-8(-10) μm, the equatorial thickening (“septum”) (3.5-)4-5.5(-7.5) μm. Pycnidia immersed, the wall grey in section, K+ violet. Conidia ellipsoid, 2.5–3.5 x c, 1.5 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-; apothecia K+ violet-red, C- (epithecium weakly and slowly C+ orange-red), P-. Chemistry: low amounts of Sedifolia-grey pigment in thallus and especially pycnidial walls; apothecia with parietin (major), fragilin, emodin, emodial, emodic acid and 7-chloremodin (minor).
Note: a species with a grey but often whitish pruinose, areolate thallus, the areolae with marginal soralia, found on concrete, mortar or siliceous pebbles in manured sites; hitherto known especially from eastern Europe, but probably more widespread, at least in the continental Alpine valleys.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very rare
Subalpine belt: very rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
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

Source: http://fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/caloplaca-soralifera - CC BY-NC



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[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



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[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



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[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0187149], Czech Republic, Central Bohemia, Rakovník District, Krivoklat, near a small pond in Kalubice, on horizontal faces of a concrete wall. 50°02’56.3’’ N, 13°49’30.4’’ E, 348 m. Leg. J. Vondrák, J., 28 December 2004, det. J. Vondrák. VONDRAK, SELECTED EXSICCATES OF CALOPLACA NO 22. ISOTYPE.