Collema subflaccidum Degel.

Symb. Bot. Upsal., 20, 2: 140, 1974.
Synonyms: Collema subfurvum auct.
Description: Thallus foliose, homoiomerous, subgelatinous when wet, dark olive-green to almost black, dull, rather loosely attached, 3-6 cm wide. Lobes 0.5-1(-2) cm wide, thin when dry, 75-120 µm thick when wet, not swollen nor pustulate, more or less rotund at apex, often ascending. Upper surface with numerous simple, globose to rarely in part teretiform, c. 0.05-0.1 mm wide isidioid outgrowths. Lower surface usually somewhat paler than the upper surface, with scattered white hapters. Upper and lower cortex absent. Apothecia rare, lecanorine, laminal, constricted at base, 1.5(-2.5) mm across, with a reddish brown disc and a smooth but often pseudoidiate thalline margin. Thalline exciple thickly pseudocorticate; proper exciple rather thin, subpara- to euthyplectenchymatous; epithecium brownish; hymenium colourless, 90-130 µm high; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched, 2(-4) µm thick at mid-level, with clavate to subglobose tips; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, the apex strongly thickened, the apical dome K/I+ pale blue, with a downwardly projecting K/I+ deep blue tubular structure. Ascospores (3-)5-7-septate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform to broadly acicular, 40-55(-65) x (3-)5-7 µm. Pycnidia rare, immersed, laminal, pale brown. Conidia bacilliform or with slightly swollen ends, (3-)4-4.5(-6) x 1-1.5(-1.8) µm. Photobiont cyanobacterial (Nostoc, the cells in long chains). Spot tests: all negative. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Growth form: Foliose, broad lobed
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: cyanobacteria, filamentous (e.g. Nostoc, Scytonema)
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by isidia, or isidia-like structures (e.g. schizidia)
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

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

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Andrea Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Slovenia, Lipica/Lipizza; altitude: 2
2008.02.21


Andrea Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Slovenia, Lipica/Lipizza; altitude: 2
2008.02.21


P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (24137)
2008.03.06


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine, Ampezzo Carnico, 600 m
09.09.2016


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


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


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


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


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 24137


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 12683


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (12683)
2001/12/04


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C6/Collema_subflaccidum.htm; Owner: -
France, Corse - (20) - Site archéologique de Cucuruzzu, alt. 730m - sur Quercus ilex
25/10/2016


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C6/Collema_subflaccidum.htm; Owner: -
France, Corse - (20) - Site archéologique de Cucuruzzu, alt. 730m - sur Quercus ilex
25/10/2016


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C6/Collema_subflaccidum.htm; Owner: -
France, Corse - (20) - Site archéologique de Cucuruzzu, alt. 730m - sur Quercus ilex
25/10/2016


Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, La Focella (Teverga-Asturias), 17-X-2021, en corteza de Fagus sylvatica, leg. & det. Marta González, ERD-9117.


Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, La Focella (Teverga-Asturias), 17-X-2021, en corteza de Fagus sylvatica, leg. & det. Marta González, ERD-9117.


Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, La Focella (Teverga-Asturias), 17-X-2021, en corteza de Fagus sylvatica, leg. & det. Marta González, ERD-9117.


Marta Gonzalez Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, La Focella (Teverga-Asturias), 17-X-2021, en corteza de Fagus sylvatica, leg. & det. Marta González, ERD-9117.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[OH606], Japan, Hokkaido, Prov. Kitami: Utanoboripenkenai, Esashicho, Esashi-gun (44°47'121'' N, 142°31'08''). On trunc of Ulmus davidiana var. japonica, 100m. Leg. Y Ohmura (no.11183), 20.06.2016, det. Y. Ohmura. - EX Y. OHMURA: LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 606.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[OH606], Japan, Hokkaido, Prov. Kitami: Utanoboripenkenai, Esashicho, Esashi-gun (44°47'121'' N, 142°31'08''). On trunc of Ulmus davidiana var. japonica, 100m. Leg. Y Ohmura (no.11183), 20.06.2016, det. Y. Ohmura. - EX Y. OHMURA: LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 606.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[OH606], Japan, Hokkaido, Prov. Kitami: Utanoboripenkenai, Esashicho, Esashi-gun (44°47'121'' N, 142°31'08''). On trunc of Ulmus davidiana var. japonica, 100m. Leg. Y Ohmura (no.11183), 20.06.2016, det. Y. Ohmura. - EX Y. OHMURA: LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 606.