Bagliettoa limborioides A. Massal.

Mem. Lichenogr.: 147, 1853.
Synonyms: Bagliettoa sphinctrina auct. non (Ach.) Körb.; Protobagliettoa grummannii (Servít) Servít; Verrucaria bosniaca Servít; Verrucaria ceracea J. Steiner; Verrucaria limborioides (A. Massal.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux; Verrucaria sphinctrina auct. p.p. non Ach.; Verrucaria subconcentrica (J. Steiner) Servít var. euthallina Servít f. genovensis Servít
Description: Thallus crustose, fully endosubstratic, usually covering large surfaces, white to pale grey. Cortex (lithocortex) densely prosoplectenchymatous, of conglutinated hyphae intermingled with microcrystals; algal layer discontinuous, the algal cells in clusters; medulla prosoplectenchymatous, with oil cells (macrosphaeroids) in lower part. Perithecia black, completely immersed in thallus and leaving deep pits in the rocks when they fall off. Involucrellum prominent, with radial cracks around the ostiole, usually broader than the body of the perithecium (0.3-0.4 mm wide), with a distinctly raised, convex center; exciple 0.3-0.35 mm wide, the wall colourless to brown; hymenial gel hemiamyloid, I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I+ blue; hamathecium of periphyses in the ostiolar canal, and short periphysoids in the half upper part of the perithecial cavity; paraphyses dissolving early. Asci 8-spored, two-layered, fissitunicate, with a thin tholus reacting I-, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled (very rarely a few 1-septate), hyaline, ellipsoid, often poorly developed, 17-35 x 10-13 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

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

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J. Yuzon
Image from: Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the endolithic lichen genus Bagliettoa (Ascomycota: Verrucariaceae) Taxon 63,6, 2014


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