Verrucaria anziana Garov.

Tentam. Dispos. Lich. Langob.: 20, 1865.
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Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, pale grey-brown to medium brown, not gelatinous when wet, 60-480 μm thick, smooth, matt to slightly glossy, usually cracked. Cortex brownish, weakly developed; thallus cells not or only weakly arranged in columns; medulla without a black basal layer. Perithecia black, 0.2-0.4 mm across, immersed, the apex sometimes slightly projecting. Involucrellum absent or very poorly developed around the ostiole, not spreading; exciple brown throughout or colourless in lower part; hamathecium of periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid, I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, clavate, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of an endotunica to form a delicate rostrum, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, (23-)25-31(-36.5) x (10.5-)11.5-13(-14.5) μm, (1.9-)2.1-2.6(-3) times as long as wide, often with a 0.8-2.5 μm thick, gelatinous perispore. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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

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Source:https://nhm2.uio.no/typephotos/lichens/arkiv/O-L-153483e.jpg
TALY: in alpe Tresér (præalpinium Camoniarum), ., - ISOSYNTYPE?


Natural History Museum (2014). Dataset: Collection specimens. Resource: Specimens. Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk). https://doi.org/10.5519/0002965 Retrieved: 14:36 19 Dec 2021 (GMT)


Source: Thüs H., Schultz M. 2009. Fungi: Lichens 1. In: Süßwasserflora Von Mitteleuropa. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. 223 pp.