Ochrolechia androgyna (Hoffm.) Arnold
Flora, 68: 236, 1885. Basionym: Lichen androgynus Hoffm. - Enum. Lich.: 56, Tab. 7, f. 3, 1784.
Synonyms: Ochrolechia albosorediosa Gyeln.; Ochrolechia androgyna f. tatrica (Gyeln.) Verseghy; Ochrolechia androgyna var. albosorediosa (Gyeln.) Erichsen; Ochrolechia androgyna var. pergranulosa Räsänen; Ochrolechia androgyna var. saxorum auct. non (Oeder) Verseghy; Ochrolechia bahusiensis f. roseosorediosa (Gyeln.) Erichsen; Ochrolechia pulvinata var. ecorticata Verseghy; Ochrolechia roseosorediosa Gyeln.; Ochrolechia tartarea f. verrucosa Räsänen; Ochrolechia tartarea var. androgyna (Hoffm.) Arnold; Ochrolechia tatrica Gyeln.; Pertusaria degelii Erichsen; Pertusaria tumidula var. perpityrea Erichsen
Description: Thallus crustose, superficial, thin to usually thick, smooth to bullate-tuberculate, white-grey to dark grey, delimited by a shiny, thick, pinkish grey prothallus, the tubercles usually not separated from one another, large, convex or flattened, in some specimens constricted at base. Soralia usually well delimited, 1.5-3 mm diam., round to irregular, rarely confluent and forming a continuous sorediate crust, concolorous with thallus or beige grey to yellowish- or pinkish-grey, bearing coarse granular, sometimes almost isidioid soredia. Cortex often covered with a distinct C– (necrotic) layer, white-grey to brown, often with a yellow tinge. Apothecia rare, lecanorine, 2-4 mm across, with a flesh-coloured, orange-brown, pale or dark brown, epruinose, at first concave then flat disc surrounded by a salmon-pink discoid tissue, and by a usually sorediate thalline margin. Thalline exciple corticate, with a well-developed medulla; proper exciple prominent, visible as a ring around thalline margin; hymenium colourless, up to c. 300 µm high; paraphyses thin, slender, densely branched and anastomosing; hypothecium colourless to yellowish. Asci 4-6(-8)-spored with thick, amyloid walls, without recognizable apical structures, Pertusaria-like. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, thin walled, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, (12-)25-50 x (12-)17-31 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and epithecium K-, C+ pink, KC+ orange-pink, P-, UV-. Chemistry: gyrophoric acid (major), lecanoric acid (minor or trace), plus 3 fatty acids ('Androgyna B unknowns' sensu Tønsberg 1992).
Growth form: Crustose
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: very rare
Subalpine belt: rare
Montane belt: rather 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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Predictive map
Current prediction (1981-2010)
Future prediction (2071-2100) SSP 1-2.6
Future prediction (2071-2100) SSP 5-8.5Predictive maps according to Francesconi et al. 2025
Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36768)
2008.02.28
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36781)
2008.02.28
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36781)
2008.02.28
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 38810
Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_O/Ochrolechia_androgyna.htm
France, Bellefontaine - Jura
22/8/2016
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Crozon
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Crozon
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Pen-Hir
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Castel Meur
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Cap de la Chèvre
saxicolous, maritime
Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Cap de la Chèvre
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[2071], Schweiz, Merliwald, nördlich des Giswiler Stocks (651/187)
ca. 1350 m, an Südseite einer Abies, schattig. Leg. F. Schumm,
08.09.1972, det. F. Schumm, 1972. - Soredien: K-, C+ rot, P-
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[2071], Schweiz, Merliwald, nördlich des Giswiler Stocks (651/187)
ca. 1350 m, an Südseite einer Abies, schattig. Leg. F. Schumm,
08.09.1972, det. F. Schumm, 1972. - Soredien: K-, C+ rot, P-
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Elmaubachtal
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Elmaubachtal
Growth form: Crustose
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: very rare
Subalpine belt: rare
Montane belt: rather 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
Current prediction (1981-2010)Future prediction (2071-2100) SSP 1-2.6Future prediction (2071-2100) SSP 5-8.5Predictive maps according to Francesconi et al. 2025
Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36768)
2008.02.28
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36781)
2008.02.28
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36781)
2008.02.28
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
8891], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Beals Island south of Jonesport, 44°29.348’ N, 67°35.664’ W, 32 m, Picea-forest, on granitic rock. Leg. Schumm 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm, conf. E. Brodo 2013.
Unusual form
Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 38810
Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_O/Ochrolechia_androgyna.htm
France, Bellefontaine - Jura
22/8/2016
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Crozon
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Crozon
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Pen-Hir
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Castel Meur
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Cap de la Chèvre
saxicolous, maritime
Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Cap de la Chèvre
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Jacques Haine- Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=730&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
saxicolous, maritime
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[2071], Schweiz, Merliwald, nördlich des Giswiler Stocks (651/187) ca. 1350 m, an Südseite einer Abies, schattig. Leg. F. Schumm, 08.09.1972, det. F. Schumm, 1972. - Soredien: K-, C+ rot, P-
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[2071], Schweiz, Merliwald, nördlich des Giswiler Stocks (651/187) ca. 1350 m, an Südseite einer Abies, schattig. Leg. F. Schumm, 08.09.1972, det. F. Schumm, 1972. - Soredien: K-, C+ rot, P-
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Elmaubachtal
