Fuscidea stiriaca (A. Massal.) Hafellner

Fritschiana, 33: 42, 2002. Basionym: Biatora stiriaca A. Massal. - Ric. Auton. Lich. Crost., 125, 1852.
Synonyms: Biatorinella fagicola (Zschacke) Deschâtres & Werner; Fuscidea cyathoides var. corticola (Fr.) Kalb; Fuscidea fagicola (Zschacke) Hafellner & Türk; Lecidea cyathoides var. corticola (Fr.) H. Magn.; Lecidea fagicola Zschacke; Lecidea rivulosa var. corticola (Fr.) Jatta; Lecidea stiriaca (A. Massal.) Jatta
Description: Thallus crustose, continuous to rimose- cracked, grey, brownish green to olive-brown, often delimited by a dark brown to black prothallus and forming mosaics. Apothecia lecideine, constricted at base, round to irregular, to 1.8 mm across, with a brown to black, flat disc, and a prominent, smooth to strongly flexuose proper margin which is often slightly paler than disc. Epithecium brown; hymenium pale or faintly brownish; paraphyses 1.5-2 μm thick at mid-level, simple or sparingly branched, weakly coherent in water, becoming free in K, the apical cells to 4-5 μm wide; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with a thin external and internal K/I+ dark blue cap surrounded by a thick K/I+ pale blue apical cap, and with a K/I- apical tube in tholus, Fuscidea-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline to finally pale brown, broadly ellipsoid when young, bean-shaped when mature, (7-)10-11(-14) x 4-6 μm. Pycnidia abundant, brown, immersed to emergent, with a thin thalline rim. Conidia bacilliform 3-4.5 x 1-2 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ brownish yellow, C-, KC-, P+ rust red, UV-. Chemistry: fumarprotocetraric acid (major), protocetraric acid (trace).
Growth form: Crustose
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

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Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: rather rare
Dry submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Padanian area: absent

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P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 36778


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 36778


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Fuscidea_cyathoides_corticola.htm
France, Corse - (02) - sur Fagus sylvatica - Forêt territoriale avant U Catagnone, alt. 1210 m
13/07/2013
as Fuscidea cyathoides (Ach.) V. Wirth et Vězda éco. corticola


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Fuscidea_cyathoides_corticola.htm
France, Corse - (02) - sur Fagus sylvatica - Forêt territoriale avant U Catagnone, alt. 1210 m
13/07/2013
as Fuscidea cyathoides (Ach.) V. Wirth et Vězda éco. corticola


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Fuscidea_cyathoides_corticola.htm
France, Corse - (02) - sur Fagus sylvatica - Forêt territoriale avant U Catagnone, alt. 1210 m
13/07/2013
as Fuscidea cyathoides (Ach.) V. Wirth et Vězda éco. corticola


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Fuscidea_cyathoides_corticola.htm
France, Corse - (02) - sur Fagus sylvatica - Forêt territoriale avant U Catagnone, alt. 1210 m
13/07/2013
as Fuscidea cyathoides (Ach.) V. Wirth et Vězda éco. corticola


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Fuscidea_cyathoides_corticola.htm
France, Corse - (02) - sur Fagus sylvatica - Forêt territoriale avant U Catagnone, alt. 1210 m
13/07/2013
as Fuscidea cyathoides (Ach.) V. Wirth et Vězda éco. corticola


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Fuscidea_cyathoides_corticola.htm
France, Corse - (02) - sur Fagus sylvatica - Forêt territoriale avant U Catagnone, alt. 1210 m
13/07/2013
as Fuscidea cyathoides (Ach.) V. Wirth et Vězda éco. corticola


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1141&lang=en
France, Col d'Iraty


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1141&lang=en
France, Col d'Iraty
as F. cyathoides corticole


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1141&lang=en
France, Col d'Iraty
as F. cyathoides corticole


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1141&lang=en
France, Col d'Iraty
as F. cyathoides corticole


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1141&lang=en
France, Col d'Iraty
as F. cyathoides corticole


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ1664], Jugoslavia. Bosna, montes Brenj, in valle augusta inter Bora ko jezero et summum montem Prenj, 1500m. Ad corticem Fagi orientalis. Leg. A. Vezda, 25.7.1989. EX A. VEZDA LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1664. AS Fuscidea cyathoides var. corticola


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ1664], Jugoslavia. Bosna, montes Brenj, in valle augusta inter Bora ko jezero et summum montem Prenj, 1500m. Ad corticem Fagi orientalis. Leg. A. Vezda, 25.7.1989. EX A. VEZDA LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1664. AS Fuscidea cyathoides var. corticola