Bellicidia incompta (Borrer) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S.Ekman

Taxon, 67: 891, 2018. Basionym: Lecidea incompta Borrer in Hooker & Sowerby - Engl. Bot., Suppl. 2, tab. 2699, 1831.
Synonyms: Bacidia atrosanguinea auct.; Bacidia incompta (Borrer) Anzi; Bacidia incompta (Borrer) Anzi; Bacidia subincompta (Nyl.) Arnold non auct.; Bacidia viridula Erichsen; Lecidea atrosanguinea auct. non (Hoffm.) Nyl.; Scoliciosporum molle A. Massal.; Toniniopsis subincompta (Nyl.) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S. Ekman non auct.
Description: Thallus crustose, mostly episubstratic, grey-green, grey-brown or grey-white, granular-verrucose. Apothecia lecideine, (0.2-)0.3-0.8(-1) mm across, sessile an constricted at base, dark purple-brown to black, with a flat to slightly convex disc and a thin, persistent, often slightly paler proper margin. Proper exciple hyphal in construction, with globose outer cells, dark red-brown, K+ purple, the outermost part sometimes colourless; epithecium colourless to reddish, K-; hymenium colourless or pale red in upper part, 35-50 μm high, I+ blue; paraphyses 1.5-2(-2.5) μm thick at mid-level, simple or rarely forked in upper part, the apical cells up to c. 3 μm wide; hypothecium dark red-brown, K+ purple. Asci 8-spored, clavate, the apical dome K/I+ dark blue with a pale, conical-pointed apical cushion (axial mass), the wall I-, but the thin outer gel I+ blue, Bacidia-type. Ascospores (1-)3(-5)-septate, hyaline, elongate-bacilliform to cylindrical, 15-25(-27) x 2-3 μm, fasciculate in the asci. Pycnidia small, semi-immersed, with thin, red-brown, K+ purple walls. Conidia cylindrical-ellipsoid, 0-1-septate, 5-9 x 2-2.5 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid, the cells globose, 5-12(-14) μm in diam. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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

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Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZR193], Bohemia merid. Montes Šumava, distr. Volary, in monte "Snr í vrch", 850 m. Ad corticem Fagi silvaticae vetustae. Leg. & comm. Z. Palice, 15.10.1995. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 193.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZR193], Bohemia merid. Montes Šumava, distr. Volary, in monte "Snr í vrch", 850 m. Ad corticem Fagi silvaticae vetustae. Leg. & comm. Z. Palice, 15.10.1995. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 193.


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (21840)
2001/11/22


Collezione lichenologica Abramo Massalongo del Museo di Storia Naturale G. Ligabue di Venezia - Autori: Seggi, Linda; Trabucco, Raffaella Proprietà: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - CC BY-NC
Italy, ad populos (…) raro
as Scoliciosporum molle


Collezione lichenologica Abramo Massalongo del Museo di Storia Naturale G. Ligabue di Venezia - Autori: Seggi, Linda; Trabucco, Raffaella Proprietà: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - CC BY-NC
Italy, Veneto, in Pro. Veron. 1855
as Scoliciosporum molle