Porina byssophila (Hepp) Zahlbr.

in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., 1: 66, 1903. Basionym: Sagedia byssophila Körb. ex Hepp - Flecht. Eur., 12: nr. 695, 1860.
Synonyms: Pseudosagedia byssophila (Hepp) Hafellner & Kalb; Spermatodium cinereorufescens Trevis.
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, well-developed, grey-white, dull grey-green to orange-brown, smooth to uneven, continuous to cracked. Perithecia black, 0.1-0.3 mm across, immersed only at the base. Involucrellum of thick-walled, more or less elongated cells, purple-violet to purple-brown, K+ dark blue-grey to dull purplish-brown, HCl+ purplish-brown; exciple dark at least in upper part; hamathecium of simple or rarely branched paraphyses; hymenial gel I-, K/I-. Asci 8-spored, clavate-cylindrical, thin-walled, functionally unitunicate, I-, K/I-, the apex truncate and containing a refractive ring which stains with Congo Red. Ascospores (1-)3(-7)-septate, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, (17-)18-25(-29) x (3.5-)4-5.5(-6) μm. Pycnidia black. Conidia simple, oblong, 2.9-3.3 x c. 1.2 μm. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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

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Herbarium: TSB (17216)
2001/11/29


Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
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Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZR37], Italia. Pelagiae insulae: insula Linosa, in colle "Timpone", 30 m. Ad saxa mollia eruptiva. Leg. A. Puntillo & A. Vezda, 15.4.1992. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 37.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZR37], Italia. Pelagiae insulae: insula Linosa, in colle "Timpone", 30 m. Ad saxa mollia eruptiva. Leg. A. Puntillo & A. Vezda, 15.4.1992. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 37.


Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.


Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.


Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.