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Caloplaca spotornonis B. de Lesd.

Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 100: 177, 1953.

Synonyms: Caloplaca savonensis B. de Lesd.

Distribution: N - Lig.

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, whitish grey, rimose-areolate or areolate, rarely thin and poorly evident. Apothecia irregularly rounded, 0.3-0.7(-1.5) mm across, with an ochraceous yellow to pale yellowish red, flat to convex disc, and a paler, ochraceous yellow, persistent proper margin; a thalline margin is sometimes visible at the base of young apothecia. Epithecium yellowish brown, c. 20 µm high, inspersed with granules, K+ red; hymenium colourless, 55-60 µm high; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched in upper part, the apical cells swollen; 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, 12-20 x 5-7 µm, the equatorial thickening (“septum”) 2-3 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-; apothecia K+ red. Chemistry: thallus probably without lichen substances; apothecia with an unknown set of anthraquinones.

Note: on horizontal to subvertical surfaces of non-calciferous schists in sunny situations. This species was synonymised by Nimis & Martellos (2008) with Rufoplaca arenaria, but according to Roux & coll. (2014) it clearly differs in the well-developed thallus, the ochraceous yellow apothecia and the somewhat longer spores. It is hitherto known only from Liguria and Southern France, and it probably belongs to Rufoplaca.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare

Dry mediterranean belt: extremely rare

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

Harrie Sipman – Source http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/sipman/Zschackia/AegeanLichens/CaloplacaAC.htm - As Caloplaca oasis