Opegrapha vermicellifera (Kunze) J.R. Laundon
Lichenologist, 2: 139, 1963. Basionym: Pyrenotea vermicellifera Kunze in Reichenbach & Schubert - Lich. Exs.: nr. 60, 1823.
Synonyms: Opegrapha fuscella (Fr.) Almb.; Opegrapha hapaleoides Nyl.; Opegrapha leptospora Werner & M. Choisy; Opegrapha mehdiensis Werner
Description: Thallus crustose, thin, smooth or finely rimose, grey to almost white, the fertile form grey-ochre, the sterile form more whitish, forming up to 12 cm wide patches. Apothecia lirelliform, confined to restricted areas on the thallus, (0.3-)0.6-1.5(-2.5) x 0.1-0.3 mm, most often simple and isolated, rarely furcate or stellate and arranged in small clusters, half immersed, with a slit-like to slightly expanded disc and a black to slightly grey-pruinose proper margin. Proper exciple black, carbonized, extending below the hymenium, 28–40 µm thick laterally, 40-50 µm thick at base, K-; epithecium brown; hymenium colourless, 50-60 µm high, I+ yellowish; paraphysoids branched and anastomosing, c. 1 µm thick, the apical cells hardly swollen; subhymenium brownish, 10-15 µm high. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, the inner layer of the endoascus amyloid throughout, the apical ring hardly visible, Vulgata-type, 40-50 x 12-15 µm. Ascospores 4-7-septate, hyaline, markedly elongate with pointed ends, 15-25(-30) x 3-4(-5) µm, surrounded by a c. 1 µm thick gelatinous perispore. Pycnidia often abundant (in sterile forms), 0.15-0.25 mm in diam., regularly distributed, at first immersed and appearing as pale brown punctiform ostioles, later prominent, appearing as white-pruinose, subglobose, up to 0.4 mm tall warts, the wall K-, N-. Conidia bacilliform, straight or slightly curved, hyaline, 3-7 x 1-1.5 µm. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
In underhangs rarely wetted by rain
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid submediterranean belt: rare
Padanian area: extremely rare
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 (7580)
2001/12/15
pycnidium

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (3996)
2001/12/15
thallus with white pycnidia

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[4209], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Schwäbisch Gmünd, im Beutenbachtal bei der Beutenmühle ca. 3 km südöstlich von Lorch, ca 310 m, an Quercus, TK: 7224. Leg. F. Schumm, 29.05.1995.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[4209], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Schwäbisch Gmünd, im Beutenbachtal bei der Beutenmühle ca. 3 km südöstlich von Lorch, ca 310 m, an Quercus, TK: 7224. Leg. F. Schumm, 29.05.1995.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[4209], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Schwäbisch Gmünd, im Beutenbachtal bei der Beutenmühle ca. 3 km südöstlich von Lorch, ca 310 m, an Quercus, TK: 7224. Leg. F. Schumm, 29.05.1995.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[4209], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Schwäbisch Gmünd, im Beutenbachtal bei der Beutenmühle ca. 3 km südöstlich von Lorch, ca 310 m, an Quercus, TK: 7224. Leg. F. Schumm, 29.05.1995.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[4209], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Schwäbisch Gmünd, im Beutenbachtal bei der Beutenmühle ca. 3 km südöstlich von Lorch, ca 310 m, an Quercus, TK: 7224. Leg. F. Schumm, 29.05.1995.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[4209], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Schwäbisch Gmünd, im Beutenbachtal bei der Beutenmühle ca. 3 km südöstlich von Lorch, ca 310 m, an Quercus, TK: 7224. Leg. F. Schumm, 29.05.1995.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[4209], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Schwäbisch Gmünd, im Beutenbachtal bei der Beutenmühle ca. 3 km südöstlich von Lorch, ca 310 m, an Quercus, TK: 7224. Leg. F. Schumm, 29.05.1995.

E. Pittao; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (23020)
2008.03.13

E. Pittao; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (23028)
2008.03.13

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_O/Opegrapha_vermicellifera.htm
France, ession AFL 2015 dans le Lot, Autoire

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_O/Opegrapha_vermicellifera.htm
France, ession AFL 2015 dans le Lot, Autoire

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Saint Coulitz

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Terenez

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Terenez

Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Telgruc Rosmadec

Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Telgruc Rosmadec

Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Telgruc Rosmadec

Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Telgruc Rosmadec

Joel Querellou - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Cranou

Joel Querellou - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Cranou

Joel Querellou - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Cranou

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Pays Basque Col d'Ibardin

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Crozon

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Ardennes

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=524&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL28992], Brazil, Tocantins, near Itaguatins. 5°44'48'' S, 47°33'46''
W, 150 m. In cerrado remnant on farm on bark of tree. Leg. M. Cáceres
& A. Aptroot (no 28992), 23 October 2016, det. A. Aptroot 2016.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL28992], Brazil, Tocantins, near Itaguatins. 5°44'48'' S, 47°33'46''
W, 150 m. In cerrado remnant on farm on bark of tree. Leg. M. Cáceres
& A. Aptroot (no 28992), 23 October 2016, det. A. Aptroot 2016.

Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Soto de Agües (Sobrescobio-Asturias), 12-I-2024 sobre corteza de Acer pseudoplatanus, leg. & det. M. González, MGG-71. *La Castañal (Laviana-Asturias), 25-IV-2024, sobre corteza de Corylus avellana (solo picnidios).

Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Soto de Agües (Sobrescobio-Asturias), 12-I-2024 sobre corteza de Acer pseudoplatanus, leg. & det. M. González, MGG-71. *La Castañal (Laviana-Asturias), 25-IV-2024, sobre corteza de Corylus avellana (solo picnidios).

Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Soto de Agües (Sobrescobio-Asturias), 12-I-2024 sobre corteza de Acer pseudoplatanus, leg. & det. M. González, MGG-71. *La Castañal (Laviana-Asturias), 25-IV-2024, sobre corteza de Corylus avellana (solo picnidios).

Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Soto de Agües (Sobrescobio-Asturias), 12-I-2024 sobre corteza de Acer pseudoplatanus, leg. & det. M. González, MGG-71. *La Castañal (Laviana-Asturias), 25-IV-2024, sobre corteza de Corylus avellana (solo picnidios).

Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Soto de Agües (Sobrescobio-Asturias), 12-I-2024 sobre corteza de Acer pseudoplatanus, leg. & det. M. González, MGG-71. *La Castañal (Laviana-Asturias), 25-IV-2024, sobre corteza de Corylus avellana (solo picnidios).

Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Soto de Agües (Sobrescobio-Asturias), 12-I-2024 sobre corteza de Acer pseudoplatanus, leg. & det. M. González, MGG-71. *La Castañal (Laviana-Asturias), 25-IV-2024, sobre corteza de Corylus avellana (solo picnidios).

Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Soto de Agües (Sobrescobio-Asturias), 12-I-2024 sobre corteza de Acer pseudoplatanus, leg. & det. M. González, MGG-71. *La Castañal (Laviana-Asturias), 25-IV-2024, sobre corteza de Corylus avellana (solo picnidios).

Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Soto de Agües (Sobrescobio-Asturias), 12-I-2024 sobre corteza de Acer pseudoplatanus, leg. & det. M. González, MGG-71. *La Castañal (Laviana-Asturias), 25-IV-2024, sobre corteza de Corylus avellana (solo picnidios).
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
In underhangs rarely wetted by rain
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid submediterranean belt: rare
Padanian area: extremely rare
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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