Acarospora laqueata (Stizenb.) Flagey
Rev. Mycol., 14, 54:73, 1892. Basionym: Lecanora laqueata Stizenb. - Ber. Tät. St Gall. naturw. Ges.: 236, 1890.
Synonyms: Acarospora caesiocinerea B. de Lesd.?; Acarospora cervina f. larvata (Müll. Arg.) H. Magn.?; Acarospora pitardii B. de Lesd.?
Description: Thallus crustose-placodioid, episubstratic, areolate in central parts, clearly lobed at margins, pale to dark brown, but densely white- or blue-grey-pruinose, forming orbicular rosettes to 12 cm across. Areoles 0.2-0.8 mm wide, slightly concave to flat, angular, with raised, white margins; lobes 0.2-0.8 mm wide, 0.6-3 mm long, mostly flat, contiguous, with slightly enlarged tips, often surrounded by a white rim. Algal layer continuous in upper part, 50-65 μm thick; medulla white to grey-white, thick, filled with crystals. Apothecia cryptolecanorine, immersed, 1-2(-5) per areole, 0.2-0.6 mm across, round or angular, with a concave, reddish brown to brown-black disc, and an indistinct thalline margin. Proper exciple thin, inconspicuous; epithecium brown; hymenium colourless, 80-120 μm high, IKI+ blue; paraphyses 2-3.5 μm thick at base, the apical cells slightly swollen; hypothecium colourless, 30-100 μm high. Asci >100-spored, clavate, the apical dome K/I-. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, long-ellipsoid, (3.5-)4-6(-8) x 1.5-3 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose placodiomorph
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Subcontinental: restricted to areas with a dry-subcontinental climate (e.g. dry Alpine valleys, parts of Mediterranean Italy)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: extremely rare
Subalpine belt: extremely rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
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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P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (27085)
2001/12/08
tip of marginal lobes

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (27085)
2001/12/08
thallus center with apothecia

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997
Growth form: Crustose placodiomorph
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Subcontinental: restricted to areas with a dry-subcontinental climate (e.g. dry Alpine valleys, parts of Mediterranean Italy)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: extremely rare
Subalpine belt: extremely rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
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

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (27085)
2001/12/08
tip of marginal lobes

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (27085)
2001/12/08
thallus center with apothecia

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[TSB 27085], Italy, Molise, Prov. Campobasso, below Lupara along River Biferno, dry calcareous rocks, 280 m, 11°44’36’’ N, 14°44’32’’ E. Leg. P.L. Nimis & M. Tretiach, 04.04.1997
