Bellemerea subsorediza (Lynge) R. Sant.

in Moberg, Thunbergia, 5: 2, 1987. Basionym: Lecidea subsorediza Lynge in Dahl & al. - Skr. om Svalbard og Ishavet, 70: 22, 1937.
Synonyms: Aspicilia alpina subsp. fraudans Räsänen; Aspicilia subsorediza (Lynge) R. Sant.
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rimose-areolate, white to yellowish white, but usually blue-grey pruinose, often delimited by a black prothallus. Areoles discrete, developing on a black prothallus, 0.4-0.6(-1) mm wide, each one with a single, well-defined, round and crater-like, laminal soralium bearing blackish, granular, 40-50 μm thick soredia. Medulla white, I+ blue. Apothecia extremely rare (not observed in Italian material). Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: medulla K+ yellow turning red (needle-like crystals), C-, KC-, P+ yellow-orange, N+ red. Chemistry: medulla with norstictic acid.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)

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

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Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/
Courtesy: Anita Stridvall


Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/
Courtesy: Anita Stridvall


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Author: Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ1434], Suecia. Härjedalen: Storsjö Paroecia, septentrionem versus a Ruvallen, Evagraven, 850 m. Ad saxa silicea in regione alpina. Leg. R Santesson (no. 26422), 8.8.1975. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1434.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ1434], Suecia. Härjedalen: Storsjö Paroecia, septentrionem versus a Ruvallen, Evagraven, 850 m. Ad saxa silicea in regione alpina. Leg. R Santesson (no. 26422), 8.8.1975. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1434.