Lecidea cerviniicola B. de Lesd.

Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 102: 231, 1955.
Synonyms: Lecidea promiscua var. cerviniicola (B. de Lesd.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or rarely thinly episubstratic, most often poorly evident, whitish to pale grey. Medullary hyphae I+ violet-blue. Apothecia lecideine, black, isolated or crowded, sessile and constricted at base, 1-2.5 mm across, rounded or angular, with a flat to convex disc and a usually persistent, sometimes finally excluded proper margin. Proper exciple dark grey-brown in outer part, paler within, K-, C+ red; epithecium blue-green to green-black, N+ purple-red; hymenium colourless, 50-60 µm high, I+ blue; paraphyses mostly simple, coherent, 1.5-2.5 µm thick at mid-level, the apical cells 3.5-4 µm wide; hypothecium dark to pale brown. Asci 8-spored, narrowly clavate, thick-walled, with a K/I+ pale blue tholus and a strongly amyloid, thin apical cushion, surrounded by a I+ blue outer layer, Lecidea-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 8-12 x 3.2-4.2 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV+ white. Chemistry: thallus with perlatolic acid, apothecia with anziaic acid.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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

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Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidea_cerviniicola.htm
France, Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis - Savoie - (73) - sur roches siliceuses, ancien Fort Variselle, alt. 2050 m
4/8/2011


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidea_cerviniicola.htm
France, Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis - Savoie - (73) - sur roches siliceuses, ancien Fort Variselle, alt. 2050 m
4/8/2011


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidea_cerviniicola.htm
France, Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis - Savoie - (73) - sur roches siliceuses, ancien Fort Variselle, alt. 2050 m
4/8/2011


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidea_cerviniicola.htm
France, Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis - Savoie - (73) - sur roches siliceuses, ancien Fort Variselle, alt. 2050 m
4/8/2011