Dibaeis baeomyces (L. f.) Rambold & Hertel
in Rambold & al., Bibl. Lichenol., 53: 231, 1993. Basionym: Lichen baeomyces L. f. - Suppl. Plant.: 450, 1781 (1782).
Synonyms: Baeomyces roseus f. abortivus A. Massal.; Baeomyces roseus Pers.; Dibaeis rosea (Pers.) Clem.
Description: Primary thallus crustose, grey, white or very pale grey, thick, areolate, usually with soft, rounded, white to pinkish grey, more or less glossy, wart-like, rarely sorediate schizidia which are up to 1 mm wide in sterile thalli, 0.1-0.3 mm wide in fertile thalli. Cortex of thallus c. 50 µm thick, of thin-walled, vertically oriented hyphae; medulla very loose, paraplectenchymatous in parts; cortex of schizidia consisting of interwoven hyphae parallel to the surface; inner part of stalks with strands of thin-walled 2.5-3 µm thick hyphae, those under the hymenium up to 5 µm thick. Apothecia frequent, globose also when young, often hollow inside, pink, 1-4 mm wide, emarginate or with a narrow margin when young, brought on erect, subfruticose, smooth, ecorticate, white stipes (podetia) which are 2-5(-6) mm tall and to 3 mm wide. Proper exciple poorly developed, of radially arranged hyphae; epithecium with colourless crystals dissolving in K (present also in the hymenium); hymenium colourless, 100-120(-140) µm high, K/I+ blue (reaction ephemeral!); paraphyses simple, not anastomosing, 2-2.5 thick at mid-level, the apical cells only slightly wider; hypothecium colourless or yellowish in upper part. Asci 8-spored, thin walled, cylindrical, the walls and tip K/I+ blue, with a distinct ocular chamber in the tholus, Icmadophila-type. Ascospores 1-celled (some apparently 2-celled for the presence of a pseudo-septum), hyaline, fusiform, (10-)12-26 x 2-3 µm. Pycnidia 0.1-0.2 mm across, immersed in warts, mostly laminal, with a colourless wall (brownish near the ostiole), the conidiogenous cells catenate, barrel-shaped. Conidia pleurogenous, short-bacilliform, 3.5-5 x c. 1 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid (Coccomyxa). Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow-orange, C-, KC+ orange, P+ yellow to orange, UV+ orange; medulla P+ yellow to orange, UV+ orange. Chemistry: baeomycesic acid, and variable amounts of squamatic and barbatic acids and atranorin.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Pioneer species
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: very rare
Subalpine belt: rare
Montane belt: rather rare
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: extremely rare
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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Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_D/Dibaeis_baeomyces.htm
France, Haute-Savoie 2010

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Commana

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Commana

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Cranou

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Cranou

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Cranou

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Rocroi

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Rocroi

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Rocroi

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=288&lang=en
France, Rocroi
with Baeomyces rufus (right)

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=971&lang=en
France, Kergonan
sterile form

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=971&lang=en
France, Bodvarec
sterile form

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=971&lang=en
France, Pointe de Dinan
sterile form

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=971&lang=en
France, Roscanvel
sterile form

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany; Bavaria: Alps.

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[84], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Rems-Murr-Kreis, Stetten an der
Rems, Wegböschung im Wald zwischen Calluna, TK:7222. Leg. E.
Putzler, 17.05.1949, det. E. Putzler. -Thallus P+ gelb, K-; Apothecien
K-.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[84], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Rems-Murr-Kreis, Stetten an der
Rems, Wegböschung im Wald zwischen Calluna, TK:7222. Leg. E.
Putzler, 17.05.1949, det. E. Putzler. -Thallus P+ gelb, K-; Apothecien
K-.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[85], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Rems-Murr-Kreis, Stetten im
Remstal, Böschung eines Waldweges im Gemeindewald, TK: 7222.
Leg. Erich Putzler, 17.07.1948, det. J. Poelt. -

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[85], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Rems-Murr-Kreis, Stetten im
Remstal, Böschung eines Waldweges im Gemeindewald, TK: 7222.
Leg. Erich Putzler, 17.07.1948, det. J. Poelt. -

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1991], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Zell bei
Börtlingen, am Rand eines Waldweges im Waldteil "Ob dem See", ca
410 m, TK: 7223.leg. et det. F. Schumm

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1991], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Zell bei
Börtlingen, am Rand eines Waldweges im Waldteil "Ob dem See", ca
410 m, TK: 7223.leg. et det. F. Schumm

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[8865], USA, Maine, Washington Co.: an der Strasse Nr. 187 an der
Küste bei Jonesport, 44°33.979' N, 67°34.339, 20' W, sandiger Straßenrand.
Leg. F. Schumm, 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm.
Thallus

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[8865], USA, Maine, Washington Co.: an der Strasse Nr. 187 an der
Küste bei Jonesport, 44°33.979' N, 67°34.339, 20' W, sandiger Straßenrand.
Leg. F. Schumm, 21.08.2001, det. F. Schumm.
Thallus

Collezione lichenologica Abramo Massalongo del Museo di Storia Naturale G. Ligabue di Venezia - Autori: Seggi, Linda; Trabucco, Raffaella Proprietà: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - CC BY-NC
Italy, Veneto, in nem. Montello
as Baeomyces roseus

Collezione lichenologica Abramo Massalongo del Museo di Storia Naturale G. Ligabue di Venezia - Autori: Seggi, Linda; Trabucco, Raffaella Proprietà: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - CC BY-NC
Italy, Veneto, in op. Recoaro
as Baeomyces roseus

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ2352], Tanzania. Mbeya distr.: Kipengere, prope vicum Igoma, 240
m. Ad terram nudam. Leg. T. Pócs et al. (87142), 25.5.1987, det. A.
Vezda. Ex A. Vezda Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 2352.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ2352], Tanzania. Mbeya distr.: Kipengere, prope vicum Igoma, 240
m. Ad terram nudam. Leg. T. Pócs et al. (87142), 25.5.1987, det. A.
Vezda. Ex A. Vezda Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 2352.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ2352], Tanzania. Mbeya distr.: Kipengere, prope vicum Igoma, 240
m. Ad terram nudam. Leg. T. Pócs et al. (87142), 25.5.1987, det. A.
Vezda. Ex A. Vezda Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 2352.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Pioneer species
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: very rare
Subalpine belt: rare
Montane belt: rather rare
Dry submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: extremely rare
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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Current prediction (1981-2010)
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