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Candelariella plumbea Poelt & Vězda

Folia Geobot. Phytotaxon., 11: 89, 1976.

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Distribution: N - Frl, Ven (Nimis 1994), Piem (Clerc & al. 1999), VA (TSB 29456). C - Abr (Nimis & Tretiach 1999).

Description: Thallus (which might belong to a host lichen) crustose to subsquamulose, grey to almost black in sun-forms, to 1 mm thick, firmly attached with a constricted basis. Marginal squamules to 1 mm long and wide, more or less deeply divided, usually weakly convex; inner squamules smaller, some of them ascending and sometimes forming isidia-like outgrowths. Cortex of hyphae running parallel to the surface, overlain with a thick epinecral layer and underlain by a paraplectenchymatous tissue. Apothecia lecanorine, immersed in the thallus, 0.5-1(-1.5) mm across, round to usually undulate, with a flat to weakly convex, yellow to ochre-yellow disc, and a thick, yellow to grey, wavy margin. Exciple paraplectenchymatous, in upper part inspersed with minute brownish yellow crystals; epithecium yellow, granular; hymenium colourless, c. 60 µm high; paraphyses 2-3 µm thick at the base, the terminal cells swollen and up to 5 µm thick. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with an apical dome which is I+ blue only in the internal, lower part, interrupted in the centre by an I+ paler blue strip, Candelaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, ellipsoid, hyaline, straight or slightly curved, 14-18(-20) x 4.5-6 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-; apothecia K- or K+ reddish-orange, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: apothecia with pulvinic acid derivatives.

Note: a probably circumpolar lichen found on more or less calcareous dolomitic rocks wetted by rain in exposed habitats, often developing along small cracks, mostly near or above treeline, probably more widespread in the Alps; frequently confused, in the past, with C. aurella.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rare

Subalpine belt: rather common

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 19682