Halospora scammoeca (Lettau) Hafellner
Bibl. Lichenol., 106: 89, 2011. Basionym: Merismatium scammoecum Lettau - Feddes Repert., Beih. 119, 2: 18, 1940.
Synonyms: Polyblastia discrepans f. dilatata Arnold
Description: Thallus not visible, not lichenized, growing on endolithic lichens, especially Protoblastenia-species. Perithecia (pseudothecia) black, 0.2-0.3 mm across, one-third to half-immersed in the host. Involucrellum absent; exciple brown throughout, K+ darker brown, greenish blue around the ostiole, paraplectenchymatous, c. 50 µm thick in upper part, 25-30 µm thick in lower part; hamathecium of short pseudoparaphyses and periphyses forming a crown above the asci and lining the ostiolar canal, interascal filaments lacking, the hymenial gel I+ red, K/I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, subcylindrical to narrowly clavate, thick-walled when young, without ocular chamber, K/I-. Ascospores submuriform to muriform, dark brown, divided by oblique septa into (2-)4-6(-8) cells, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, (13-)15-20(-22) x (8-)10-13(-15) μm, surrounded by a halo at least when young. Photobiont absent. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Lichenicolous fungus
Substrata: rocks
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
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
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rare
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rather common
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Growth form: Lichenicolous fungus
Substrata: rocks
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
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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