Squamarina subcetrarioides (Zahlbr.) Y.Y. Zhang

in Zhang & al., Lichenologist, 55: 135, 2023. Basionym: Lecanora fragilis var. subcetrarioides Zahlbr. - Ann. naturhist. Mus. Wien, 38; 143, 1925
Synonyms: Squamarina gypsacea var. subcetrarioides (Zahlbr.) Pišút
Description: Thallus squamulose to crustose-placodioid, greenish, initially forming 2-7 cm wide, well-delimited rosettes which are continuous and usually epruinose in central parts, deeply and frequently lobed in peripheral parts, the margin of lobes strongly white-pruinose; mature thalli irregular in outline, becoming transversely cracked, with numerous small, white-rimmed, dissected squamules; lower surface pale, white to pale brown, with scattered, dark brown to black, simple, fragile rhizinoid strands. Upper cortex 45-55 μm thick, inspersed with pale brown granules dissolving in K, overlain by a thin epinecral layer; medulla white, thick, filled with calcium oxalate crystals; lower cortex absent. Apothecia lecanorine, common only in the mature, more squamulose thalli, scattered, rounded, 2-6 mm across, with a pale ochraceous, faintly white-pruinose, slightly concave disc and an entire, partly pruinose, usually persistent thalline margin. Cortex of thalline margin similar to the upper cortex of thallus; epithecium 10-17 μm high, with pale brown granules dissolving in K and calcium oxalate crystals; hymenium colourless, 75-85 μm high, with pale brown granules dissolving in K, hemiamyloid; paraphyses simple, c. 2 μm thick; subhymenium 20-27 μm high, with clusters of calcium oxalate crystals; hypothecium 150-200 μm high, with pale brown granules dissolving in K, not subtended by an algal layer. Asci 8-spored, elongate-clavate, with a thin, outer amyloid layer and a thickened, amyloid tholus devoid of an ocular chamber, penetrated by an axial tube the sides of which stain I+ deeper blue, approaching the Porpidia-type, 57-75 x 10-15 μm. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, subfusiform to ellipsoid, 11-17 x 5-7 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex K-, C-, KC- or KC+ yellowish, P-, UV-; medulla P+ yellow. Chemistry: cortex with isousnic and usnic acid, medulla with psoromic and 2ʹ-O-demethylpsoromic acids.
Growth form: Squamulose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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

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Gabriele Gheza; Owner: Gabriele Gheza
Italy, Lombardia, Corna di San Fermo, nel gruppo del Pizzo Camino (ValCamonica).
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010


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Italy, Veneto, Belluno, Vette di Feltre
2016


Juri Nascimbene - CC BY-SA 4.0; Owner: ITALIC - Dyades Project - Dept. of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Bolzano/Bozen, Sciliar/Schlern
2007


Pier Luigi Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
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