Verruculopsis beltraminiana (A. Massal.) Cl. Roux
in Roux & al., Catalogue des Lichens et Champignons lichénicoles de France Métropolitaine, 3e éd.: 1290, 2020. Basionym: Lithocia beltraminiana A. Massal. - Symmicta Lich.: 93, 1855.
Synonyms: Verrucaria beltraminiana (A. Massal.) Trevis.
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, areolate, up to 0.3 mm thick, the areoles sharply angular with brown to black side-walls but usually without a black rim, contiguous, flat, 0.2-0.8 mm wide, whitish to bluish grey, dull. Cortex paraplectenchymatous, overlain by an amorphous epinecral layer; algal layer filling most of thallus; medulla white, with a very thin, brownish basal layer. Perithecia black, numerous, marginal or located between the areoles, deeply immersed, with slightly projecting, convex apices. Involucrellum appressed to exciple, extending to base-level and more or less incurved beneath, c. 40 µm thick laterally; exciple subglobose, 0.2-0.3 mm across, the wall c. 20 µm thick, darker in upper part; hamathecium of 20-25 µm long 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, rather broadly ellipsoid, 17-22 x 7.5-9(-10) µm. 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
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: extremely rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: rather 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 (13308)
2003/03/17
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: extremely rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: rather 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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