Lecanora stenotropa Nyl.

Flora, 55: 251, 1872.
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Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, yellowish or greenish yellow, sometimes with a brownish hue, continuous to granulose, sometimes forming an areolate crust, the granules contiguous, 0.1-0.2 mm wide, slightly convex. Apothecia lecanorine, sessile, round to irregular in outline, 0.5-1.5(-3) mm across, with a pale yellow-green to pale greenish brown, epruinose, flat to convex disc and a thin, often finally excluded thalline margin. Thalline exciple corticate, with sparse algae, lacking crystals, 30-70 µm wide laterally, up to 110 µm wide at base; proper exciple colourless, 25-50 µm wide; epithecium brownish, without crystals; hymenium colourless, 45-60 µm high, I+ blue; paraphyses coherent, sparingly branched and anastomosing, 1.5-2 µm thick at mid-level, the apical cells up to 2.5 µm wide; hypothecium pale yellowish brown. Asci 8-spored, clavate, Lecanora-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, 7-14 x 2.5-4 µm. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC+ yellowish, P-. Chemistry: isorangiformic acid, usnic acid and zeorin.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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

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S. Poumarat - Source: Roux C., Bertrand M., Poumarat S., Uriac P. 2022. Quelques espèces nouvelles saxicoles – calcifuges de Lecanora du groupe polytropa (Ascomycota, Lecanoraceae) découvertes en France. Bull. Soc. linn. Provence, 73: 79-120.


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 14663


Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley Date: 2012-04-07 On basalt boulder in mixed conifer-deciduous forest


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Lecanora_stenotropa.htm
France, Sur granite - Coscione Bergeries de Chiralbella, alt. 1600 m, Quenza - Corse
7/10/2014


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Lecanora_stenotropa.htm
France, Sur granite - Coscione Bergeries de Chiralbella, alt. 1600 m, Quenza - Corse
7/10/2014


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Lecanora_stenotropa.htm
France, Sur granite - Coscione Bergeries de Chiralbella, alt. 1600 m, Quenza - Corse
7/10/2014


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Lecanora_stenotropa.htm
France, Sur granite - Coscione Bergeries de Chiralbella, alt. 1600 m, Quenza - Corse
7/10/2014


Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Switzerland: Glarus. (1900 m above sea level).