Blastodesmia nitida A. Massal.
Ric. Auton. Lich. Crost.: 180, 1852.
Synonyms: Arthopyrenia pluriseptata (Nyl.) Arnold non auct.; Polyblastia nitida (A. Massal.) Trevis.; Pyrenula circumfusa (Nyl.) Trevis.; Verrucaria circumfusa Nyl.; Verrucaria massalongii Garov.
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic, not lichenized, forming 1-2 cm wide, pale patches on the bark. Perithecia black, 0.4-0.6 mm across, half-immersed, the visible part projecting, hemispherical, shiny black, sometimes depressed near the ostiole. Exciple black and carbonized throughout; paraphyses filiform, euseptate, simple, free, disappearing early. Asci narrowly cylindrical, long-stalked, multilayered, the apex with an internal apical beak and a refractive subapical cap, I-, K/I-. Ascospores 5-9-septate, constricted at septa, grey to brown, rounded at apices, with rectangular cells, the central cell larger, (24-)28-37(-47) x 6-10(-12) µm. Pycnidia black, immersed. Conidia colourless, straight, 3-5 x 0.5 µm. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Fungus
Substrata: bark
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)
Pioneer species
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: rare
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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Domenico Puntillo; Owner: Domenico Puntillo
Italy
P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (25225)
2003/02/13
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, ad Fraxinos in op. Tregnago 1855
ISOTYPE
Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.
Growth form: Fungus
Substrata: bark
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)
Pioneer species
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: rare
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
Domenico Puntillo; Owner: Domenico Puntillo
Italy
P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (25225)
2003/02/13
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, ad Fraxinos in op. Tregnago 1855
ISOTYPE
