Flavoplaca tavaresiana (Nav.-Ros. & Cl. Roux) Arup, Frödén & Søchting

in Arup & al., Nord. J. Bot., 31: 46, 2013. Basionym: Caloplaca tavaresiana Nav.-Ros. & Cl. Roux - Nova Hedwigia, 57: 171, 1993.
Synonyms: Caloplaca flageyana Zahlbr.?
Distribution: C - Tosc (Herb. Vondrák 8720). S - Si (Navarro-Rosinés & Roux 1994b, Monte & Ferrari 1996).
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic and poorly evident or thinly episubstratic and then whitish to whitish-grey, continuous to rimose-areolate, without a distinct prothallus. Apothecia zeorine, bright orange-red, (0.1-)0.2-0.8(-1) mm across, usually numerous, rounded or deformed by mutual compression, at first immersed and urceolate, then adnate to sessile and constricted at base, with a concave to finally slightly convex, coarsely orange-red-pruinose disc, and an initially thick, smooth, epruinose, finally reduced but usually persistent proper margin; a whitish thalline rim is sometimes visible at the base of the apothecium. Thalline exciple poorly developed, but rich in algal cells; proper exciple 40-100 µm wide, prosoplectenchymatous, thinly corticate and orange-red in outer part, the medulla colourless, of radiating hyphae; epithecium yellow-red, 8-10 µm high, K+ red; hymenium colourless, 60-80 µm high; paraphyses simple or forked, 1.5-2 µm thick at mid-level, the apical cells 4.5-7 µm wide; hypothecium colourless. 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, (9-)10-13(-14.5) x (4-)5-7(-8) µm, the equatorial thickening (“septum”) (3.5-)4-6(-7) µm (less than half of spore length). Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-; apothecia K+ red. Chemistry: apothecia (rarely also thallus) with parietin (major), fallacinal, emodin, teloschistin and parietinic acid (minor), corresponding with chemosyndrome A of Søchting (1997).
Note: a Mediterranean, recently-described species found on soft calcareous substrata (incl. mortar) near the coast; locally very abundant, to be looked for throughout coastal Mediterranean Italy. The sample from Tuscany was collected at Porto Ercole, on coastal calcareous rocks.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
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: rare
Dry mediterranean belt: rare

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples


Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (16517)
2001/12/18



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (16517)
2001/11/19



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[B 60 0192699], Greece, East Aegean islands, Chios, S of Olimbi, Kato Fana bay, beginning of trail to south, N-facing limestone cliffs; accomp: Lecania sylvestris. 38°12.33' N, 25°55.67' E, 5 m. Leg. H. Sipman (60678) & Th. Raus, 14.09. 2013, det. H. Sipman.