Acarospora sinopica (Wahlenb.) Körb.

Syst. Lich. Germ.: 156, 1855
Synonyms: Acarospora sinopica var. ferruginea Körb.; Acarospora smaragdula var. sinopica (Wahlenb.) A. Massal.; Polysporinopsis sinopica (Wahlenb.) Vězda; Zeora sinopica (Wahlenb.) Flot.
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, of contiguous to dispersed, c. 1 mm wide, rounded or angular, flat and smooth areoles separated by thin cracks, bright rust-red to dark orange-brown, rarely yellowish in shade-forms, the marginal areoles often elongated and weakly radiating, giving the thallus a subplacodioid appearance. Cortex 20-35 µm thick; photobiont layer continuous, not interrupted by hyphal bundles. Apothecia usually abundant, mostly 2-8 per areole, more or less punctiform and immersed, 0.1-0.2(-0.3) mm across, rarely expanded and up to 0.6 mm across, with a dark brown or blackish disc an a thin, raised, blackish proper margin. Proper exciple 15-30 µm thick; epithecium dark rust-red; hymenium colourless, 120-170 µm high, the hymenial gel hemiamyloid, K/I+ light blue fading to light red; paraphyses 1-1.5 µm thick at base, the apical cells hardly swollen; hypothecium colourless. Asci 100-200-spored, clavate, the apical dome K/I-. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 3-4 x 1.5-2 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Species of metal-rich rocks

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

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Stelvio National Park, Reg. Trentino-Alto Adige Prov. Trento, Italy.
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Juri Nascimbene - CC BY-SA 4.0
Stelvio National Park, Reg. Trentino-Alto Adige Prov. Trento, Italy.
07.2005


Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1030&lang=en
France, Montherme


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1030&lang=en
France, Montherme


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1030&lang=en
France, Montherme


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1030&lang=en
France, Montherme


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1030&lang=en
France, Montherme


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1030&lang=en
France, Montherme


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


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


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Germany, Bavaria, Hohenfels, ., .
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Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZR473], Bohemia merid., distr. Prachatice: Kubova Hut', in declivibus montis Obrovec, loco Ostroh dicto, 950 m. Ad lapides magnos p.p. ferrum continens. Leg. J. Horáková & A. Vezda, 29.5.1989. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 473.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZR473], Bohemia merid., distr. Prachatice: Kubova Hut', in declivibus montis Obrovec, loco Ostroh dicto, 950 m. Ad lapides magnos p.p. ferrum continens. Leg. J. Horáková & A. Vezda, 29.5.1989. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 473.


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