Verrucaria floerkeana Dalla Torre & Sarnth.

Die Flecht. Tirol: 524, 1902.
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Description: Thallus crustose, hemiendosubstratic or poorly evident, continuous to finely rimose, dirty olive-brown, becoming greenish when wet, often delimited by a dark, sometimes fimbriate prothallus. Cortex very thin; algal layer 20-30 μm thick; medulla poorly evident, the thallus filled by numerous crystals which reach the algal layer. Perithecia black, up to 120/cm², sessile, covered with a thin thalline layer at base, the apical part hemispherically projecting, up to 0.25 mm across, with a punctiform ostiole. Involucrellum homogeneously thick (20-30 μm), reaching to base-level and there slightly diverging from exciple, otherwise closely appressed; exciple subglobose, 0.2-0.3 mm across, colourless to very pale brown; hamathecium of periphysoids measuring 20-30 x c. 3 μm, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid, I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I + blue. Asci 8-spored, broadly clavate, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of an endotunica to form a delicate rostrum, Verrucaria-type, 60-70 x 20-25 µm. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, oblong-ellipsoid, (13-)15-20(-22) x (5-)7-9 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
Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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

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Zschacke, H. (1934) Epigloeaceae, Verrucariaceae und Dermatocarpaceae. In: Dr. L. Rabenhorst‘s Kryptogamen-Flora, Band 9, Abt. 1, Teil 1. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 695 pp. - Public Domain


Source: Servít M. 1950b. The new lichens of the Pyrenocarpae-group III. Studia Bot. Cechoslov. 11, (1-2): 7-41.