Gyalecta fagicola (Arnold) Kremp.
Denkschr. kgl. bayer. bot. Ges., Abt. 2, 4: 168, 1861. Basionym: Bacidia fagicola Hepp ex Arnold - Flora, 41: 504, 1858.
Synonyms: Gyalecta corticola (Lönnr.) Tuck.; Lecidea congruella Nyl.; Pachyphiale corticola Lönnr.; Pachyphiale fagicola (Arnold) Zwackh
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic ot hemiendosubstratic, granular or farinose, pale grey to pinkish grey. Apothecia urceolate, 0.3-0.5 mm across, gelatinous and translucent when wet, with a concave, reddish brown, usually epruinose disc, and a thick, usually smooth, more or less concolorous proper margin. Proper exciple well-developed, of thin, compacted hyphae, reddish brown in outer part, colourless within; epithecium reddish brown; hymenium colourless, I+ pale blue; paraphyses mostly simple, thread-like, septate with more or less hooked tips; hypothecium colourless. Asci 16-32-spored, subclavate, thin-walled, the wall K/I+ blue, not or only slightly thickened at apex, without an internal apparatus. Ascospores 3-7-septate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform, (15-)20-30(-35) x 3-5 µm. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: very rare
Dry submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Padanian area: absent
pH of the substrata:
1 2 3 4 5
Solar irradiation:
1 2 3 4 5
Aridity:
1 2 3 4 5
Eutrophication:
1 2 3 4 5
Poleotolerance:
0 1 2 3
Altitudinal distribution:
1 2 3 4 5 6
Rarity
absent
extremely rare
very rare
rare
rather rare
rather common
common
very common
extremely common
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P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (34825)
2002/02/12

Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Peace Lowlands Date: July, 2008 Photographed from specimen (Björk 16240, UBC), on bark of old Populus in riparian forest

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Curtis Randall Björk CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Peace Lowlands Date: July, 2008 Photographed from specimen (Björk 16240, UBC), on bark of old Populus in riparian forest

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse; rare. (Coll. A. Marx; ident. Cezanne, Eichler, Kirschbaum).

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse; rare. (Coll. A. Marx; ident. Cezanne, Eichler, Kirschbaum).

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse; rare. (Coll. A. Marx; ident. Cezanne, Eichler, Kirschbaum).
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: very rare
Dry submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Padanian area: absent
pH of the substrata:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Solar irradiation:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Aridity:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Eutrophication:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Poleotolerance:
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Altitudinal distribution:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Rarity
absent
extremely rare
very rare
rare
rather rare
rather common
common
very common
extremely common
Loading data...
Occurrence data
Predictive map

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (34825)
2002/02/12

Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Peace Lowlands Date: July, 2008 Photographed from specimen (Björk 16240, UBC), on bark of old Populus in riparian forest

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_G/Textes_G1/Gyalecta_fagicola.htm
France, Sur Acer pseudoplatanus - alt. 660 m - Haute-Loire - (43) - leg. Arnaud Descheemacker, dét. O et D. Gonnet
29/8/2017

Curtis Randall Björk CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Peace Lowlands Date: July, 2008 Photographed from specimen (Björk 16240, UBC), on bark of old Populus in riparian forest

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse; rare. (Coll. A. Marx; ident. Cezanne, Eichler, Kirschbaum).

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse; rare. (Coll. A. Marx; ident. Cezanne, Eichler, Kirschbaum).
