Ramalina pusilla Duby
Bot. Gall., 2: 614, 1830.
Synonyms:
Description: Thallus fruticose, greenish yellow to grey-green, often with several black dots, 1-3 cm across, formed by irregularly cylindrical, simple or sparingly branched, inflated, 2-6 mm thick, to 4(-5) cm tall, often irregularly fenestrate, hollow units arising from a basal holdfast. Cortex indistinct, chondroid cylinder continuous, medulla dense, but occupying only a thin layer below the chondroid layer. Apothecia frequent, lecanorine, terminal, at first immersed and concave, then often flat and to 1 cm across, with a greenish disc and a smooth, sometimes blackened thalline margin. Epithecium pale brownish-olive; hymenium and hypothecium colourless; paraphyses thick-walled, richly branched in upper part. Asci 8-spored, the apical dome K/I+ dark blue with a pale, conical-pointed apical cushion (axial mass), the wall I-, but the thin outer gel I+ blue, Bacidia-type. Ascospores 1-septate, hyaline, usually curved, 10-13 x 4-5 µm. Pycnidia black, immersed. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex K-, C-, KC+ pale yellow, P-; medulla K+ red, C-, KC-, P+ red, UV-. Chemistry: cortex with usnic acid; medulla with sekikaic acid, salazinic and divaricatic acids and triterpenoids, or (rarely) with salazinic acid only.
Growth form: Fruticose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
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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A. Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Sicilia, TP, Isola di Marettimo
2008.04.03

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (9941)
2001/12/04
detail of apothecia

A. Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Sicilia, TP, Isola di Marettimo
2008.04.03

A. Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Sicilia, TP, Isola di Marettimo
2008.04.03

A. Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Sicilia, TP, Isola di Marettimo
2008.04.03

A. Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Sicilia, TP, Isola di Marettimo
2008.04.03

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[8644], Portugal, Madeira, an der Straße bei Portela, 32°44.812’ N, 16°49.623’ W, 575 m, an Acer. Leg et det. F. Schumm, 15.04.2001, conf. A. Aptroot 05.2006.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[8644], Portugal, Madeira, an der Straße bei Portela, 32°44.812’ N, 16°49.623’ W, 575 m, an Acer. Leg et det. F. Schumm, 15.04.2001, conf. A. Aptroot 05.2006.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[8644], Portugal, Madeira, an der Straße bei Portela, 32°44.812’ N, 16°49.623’ W, 575 m, an Acer. Leg et det. F. Schumm, 15.04.2001, conf. A. Aptroot 05.2006.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[8644], Portugal, Madeira, an der Straße bei Portela, 32°44.812’ N, 16°49.623’ W, 575 m, an Acer. Leg et det. F. Schumm, 15.04.2001, conf. A. Aptroot 05.2006.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[8644], Portugal, Madeira, an der Straße bei Portela, 32°44.812’ N, 16°49.623’ W, 575 m, an Acer. Leg et det. F. Schumm, 15.04.2001, conf. A. Aptroot 05.2006.

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramalina_pusilla.htm
France, 4/12/2014 - Bruzzi - Corse

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_R/Ramalina_pusilla.htm
France, 4/12/2014 - Bruzzi - Corse

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, Lesteven

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, La Palue

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, La Palue

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, La Palue

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, La Palue

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, La Palue

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, La Palue

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, La Palue

Hans Toetenel - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, Groix

Hans Toetenel - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, Groix

Hans Toetenel - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, Groix

Hans Toetenel - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, Groix

Hans Toetenel - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, Groix

Hans Toetenel - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1042&lang=en
France, Groix

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1410&lang=en
France, Pointe du Guern
on cones of conifers

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1410&lang=en
France, Pointe du Guern
on cones of conifers

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1410&lang=en
France, Pointe du Guern
on cones of conifers

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1410&lang=en
France, Pointe du Guern
on cones of conifers

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1410&lang=en
France, Pointe du Guern
on cones of conifers

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Pimiango (Ribadedeva-Asturias), 11-XII-2021, en corteza de Quercus ilex, ERD-9162, leg. M. González, det. S. Pérez Ortega.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Pimiango (Ribadedeva-Asturias), 11-XII-2021, en corteza de Quercus ilex, ERD-9162, leg. M. González, det. S. Pérez Ortega.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Pimiango (Ribadedeva-Asturias), 11-XII-2021, en corteza de Quercus ilex, ERD-9162, leg. M. González, det. S. Pérez Ortega.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Pimiango (Ribadedeva-Asturias), 11-XII-2021, en corteza de Quercus ilex, ERD-9162, leg. M. González, det. S. Pérez Ortega.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Pimiango (Ribadedeva-Asturias), 11-XII-2021, en corteza de Quercus ilex, ERD-9162, leg. M. González, det. S. Pérez Ortega.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ2171], Insulae Canarienses. Tenerife: Taganana, loco Naranjos, 320
m. In ramulis Lauri canariensis. Leg. P. L. Nimis, 15.01.1985. EX A.
V ZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 2171.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ2171], Insulae Canarienses. Tenerife: Taganana, loco Naranjos, 320
m. In ramulis Lauri canariensis. Leg. P. L. Nimis, 15.01.1985. EX A.
V ZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 2171.
Growth form: Fruticose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
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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