Acarospora badiofusca (Nyl.) Th. Fr.

N. Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 3, 3: 190, 1861. Basionym: Lecanora badiofusca Nyl. - Herb. Mus. Fenn.: 110, 1859.
Synonyms: Acarospora anziana H. Magn.; Sarcogyne acarosporoides Anzi
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, pale to dark chestnut brown, sometimes grey-brown, areolate (not subsquamulose), forming up to 8 cm wide patches, the areoles round or angular, sometimes indistinctly lobed, 0.7-3 mm across, up to 1 mm thick, contiguous to dispersed, flat to strongly convex, smooth or fissured and rugulose, epruinose; lower surface dark along the margins. Epicortex 10-20 µm thick, sometimes discontinuous; upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, the cells (3-)4-5(-6) µm wide, arranged in more or less vertical rows, the upper part reddish brown, the lower part colourless; algal layer continuous, 80-120 µm thick; medulla white, 100-300 µm thick (rarely more), continuous with the attaching hyphae, the hyphae thin-walled, ca. 2 µm thick. Apothecia 0.4-2(-3) mm across, 1(-4) per areole, when mature often larger than the corresponding areole, round to weakly angular, at first immersed, then subsessile, with an expanded, flat to slightly convex, smooth to rugose, black to dark reddish brown (turning reddish when wet), matt disc, and a prominent, concolorous proper margin. Proper exciple 15-20 µm wide, prosoplectenchymatous; epithecium yellowish brown, 10-15 µm high; hymenium colourless, 60-90(-100) µm high, the hymenial gel euamyloid, IKI+ persistently dark blue; paraphyses 2-3(-3.5) µm thick at base, the apical cells unexpanded or to c. 5 µm wide; subymenium to 75 µm high, colourless; hypothecium prosoplectenchymatous, 15-30 mm high. Asci c. 200-spored, clavate, the apical dome K/I-, c. 40-50 x 12-15 µm. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, 3-6 x 1.5-2.5(-3) µm. Pycnidia globose, c. 80 x 80 µm, the conidiogenous cells ampulliform, c. 10 x 1 µm. Conidia c. 1.5-2 x 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: rather rare
Subalpine belt: rather common
Montane belt: very rare
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent

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Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ1823], Austria, Salisburgia, Lungau, in alpibus "Radstädter Tauern", in summo montis Speiereck dicti, alt. 2400 m. In rupibus calcareis. Leg. P. Clerc & A. Vezda, 07.09.1981. - Ex A. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI Nr. 1823.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ1823], Austria, Salisburgia, Lungau, in alpibus "Radstädter Tauern", in summo montis Speiereck dicti, alt. 2400 m. In rupibus calcareis. Leg. P. Clerc & A. Vezda, 07.09.1981. - Ex A. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI Nr. 1823.


Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
On rocks (gneiss).Austria: Alps.


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 9189


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (9189)
2001/11/20


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (11370)
2001/11/20


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