Verrucaria saprophila (A. Massal.) Trevis.
Consp. Verruc.: 8, 1860. Basionym: Amphoridium saprophilum A. Massal. - Symmicta Lich.: 79, 1855.
Synonyms: Thelidium saprophilum (A. Massal.) Servít
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic to hemiendosubstratic, continuous, whitish to pale grey, often delimited by black lines. Perithecia black, bottle-shaped, immersed in the rock and leaving deep pits when they fall off, the apical, visible part more or less flattened, 0.16-0.25(-0.3) mm wide. Involucrellum absent; exciple bottle-shaped, subglobose and 0.25-0.4(-0.5) mm wide in lower part, with a clear, long apical neck, the wall brown-black throughout; 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, broadly ellipsoid, (24-)30-33(-36) x (12-)13-18(-21) μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose endolithic
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Poorly known taxon in need of further study
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: extremely rare
Subalpine belt: very rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
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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Source:https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/883/NHMUKXBOTXBM001107129
Verrucaria saprophila (A.Massal.) Trevis. - The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom - CC BY.
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
Source: Servít M. 1954a. Lichenes familiae Verrucariacearum. Prag, 249 pp.
as Thelidium saprophilum
Growth form: Crustose endolithic
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Poorly known taxon in need of further study
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: extremely rare
Subalpine belt: very rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
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
Source:https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/883/NHMUKXBOTXBM001107129
Verrucaria saprophila (A.Massal.) Trevis. - The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom - CC BY.
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
