Myriospora scabrida (Hedl. ex H. Magn.) K. Knudsen & Arcadia

in Arcadia & Knudsen, Opuscula Philolichenum. 11: 22. 2012.. Basionym: Acarospora scabrida Hedl. ex H. Magn. - Göteborg. Vetensk.-och Vitter.-Handl., Ser. 4, 28, 2: 55, 1924
Synonyms: Silobia scabrida (Hedl. ex H. Magn.) M. Westb.; Trimmatothelopsis scabrida (Hedl. ex H. Magn.) Cl. Roux & Nav.-Ros.
Description: Thallus crustose-areolate to subsquamulose, the areoles round in outline, at first bullate, then flat to slightly convex, smooth, scattered to crowded, becoming subsquamulose, incised to irregularly lobed, often imbricate, the fertile ones 0.5-3.5(-7) mm wide, pale grey to brown, rarely partly white-pruinose. Epicortex 10-23 μm thick; cortex paraplectenchymatous, 40-60 μm thick, of isodiametric cells, without crystals; algal layer interrupted by thick anticlinal bundles of medullary hyphae; medulla white, prosoplectenchymatous; lower cortex absent. Apothecia rounded, 0.2-1(-1.8) mm across, at first immersed but the mature ones distinctly raised above the thallus, 1-7(-12) per areole, with a red-brown to almost black, flat, often scabrid, epruinose disc surrounded by a distinct, somewhat raised, often blackened parathecial margin, the thalline margin poorly developed. Proper exciple up to 120 μm wide laterally, colourless to yellow-brown, the uppermost cells with golden to dark brown walls; epithecium dark golden brown to yellowish brown, 10-15 µm high; hymenium colourless, (110-)140-170 μm high; paraphyses 1-1.5 μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells to 4 μm wide; subhymenium brownish, 30-50 µm high; hypothecium 12-17 µm high, prosoplectenchymatous. Asci 100-200-spored, clavate, the apical dome K/I-, 75-90 x 15-20 µm. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, (3-)4-5 x (1.5-)1.7-2 μm. Pycnidia rare. Conidia ellipsoid to subglobose, 1.5-2.5 x c. 1 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla 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: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Padanian area: absent

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


Magnusson A. H. (1935) Acarosporaceae, Thelocarpaceae. - In: Rabenhorst G. L.: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich, und der Schweiz-. 2nd- IX. Die Flechten. Abt. 5- 1. Gebr. Borntraeger. Leipzig, pp. 1-318. – Public Domain


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


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


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_M/Texte_M/Myriospora_scabrida.htm
France, session AFL 2010 - Hérault