Lecidea fuliginosa Taylor
in Mackay, Fl. Hibern.: 131, 1836.
Synonyms: Biatora conglomerata A. Massal.; Lecidea confusa Nyl.; Psora conglomerata (A. Massal.) Körb.; Psora fuliginosa (Taylor) Stein; Psora koerberi A. Massal.; Toninia confusa (Nyl.) Boistel
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, verrucose-areolate, of brown to dark brown (green when wet), often shiny, 0.5-2(-3) mm wide, 0.5-1.5 mm thick, convex to subglobose, contiguous areoles forming small pillows which are rather loosely attached to the rock. Medulla white, I-. Apothecia lecideine, black, 0.4-0.8(-1.2) mm across, adnate to sessile, with a rapidly convex disc and a soon excluded proper margin. Proper exciple thin, black to dark brown, of radiating hyphae, the marginal cells 6-8 µm wide; epithecium brown, K-; hymenium colourless or pale brown, 30-40 µm high; paraphyses coherent, sparingly branched and anastomosing, the apical cells up to 6 µm wide, with a dark cap; hypothecium dark brown, very thick and often substipitate. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, with a K/I+ blue outer coat and a K/I+ uniformly blue apical dome, Catillaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid to subfusiform, 7-10(-12) x 4-6 µm. Pycnidia dark, immersed. Conidia thread-like, curved. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: very rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
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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Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: very rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
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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Predictive map
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