Verrucaria rupestris Schrad.

Spicil. Fl. Germ., 1: 109, 1794.
Synonyms: Amphoridium rupestre (Schrad.) A. Massal.
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic, forming a grey-white to pale brown discoloration on the rock, without a distinct prothallus. Perithecia black, fully immersed in the rock or rarely very slightly projecting only with the up to 0.3 mm wide apical part, leaving pits in the rock when they fall off. Involucrellum black, up to 0.4 mm across, the upper part thick, becoming progressively thinner toward the base, usually encircling the exciple or reaching at least to mid-level; exciple c. 0.3 mm across, the wall dark in upper part, pale in lower part; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel 1+ blue turning reddish. 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, oblong-ellipsoid, 17-25 x 9-13 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
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Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: very rare
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent

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Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_V/Texte_V/Verrucaria_rupestris.htm
France, 4/9/2014 - Darois, Combe En Neudry, alt. 470 m - Côte-d'Or


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_V/Texte_V/Verrucaria_rupestris.htm
France, 4/9/2014 - Darois, Combe En Neudry, alt. 470 m - Côte-d'Or


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_V/Texte_V/Verrucaria_rupestris.htm
France, 4/9/2014 - Darois, Combe En Neudry, alt. 470 m - Côte-d'Or


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_V/Texte_V/Verrucaria_rupestris.htm
France, 4/9/2014 - Darois, Combe En Neudry, alt. 470 m - Côte-d'Or


Zschacke, H. (1934) Epigloeaceae, Verrucariaceae und Dermatocarpaceae. In: Dr. L. Rabenhorst‘s Kryptogamen-Flora, Band 9, Abt. 1, Teil 1. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 695 pp. - Public Domain


Zahlbruckner A. 1926. Lichenes (Flechten). In: Engler A. (ed.): Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. 2nd ed., vol 8, W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 270 pp.


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 oppido Tregnago
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