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Gyalecta peziza (Mont.) Anzi

Cat. Lich. Sondr.: 62, 1860. Basionym: Biatora peziza Mont. in Garovaglio - Saggio Not. Nat. Civ. Lomb., 1: 334, 1844.

Synonyms: Secoliga peziza (Mont.) Arnold

Distribution: N - TAA, Lomb, Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004).

Description: Thallus crustose, whitish or yellowish white, thin, often finely granular. Apothecia without a thalline margin (but often covered at the base by a thin thalline layer when young), sessile, strongly constricted at base, 0.7-2.5 mm across, with a strongly concave, reddish-orange to orange-brown disc, and a thick, often inrolled and radially sulcate, paler proper margin. Proper exciple of radiating hyphae, brownish yellow in outer part, colourless within; epithecium colourless to pale reddish brown, often with yellow-brown granules; hymenium colourless, 60-90 µm high, the hymenial gel I+ blue; paraphyses simple to sparingly branched in upper part, 1.5-2 µm thick, the apical cells 2-4 µm wide; hypothecium colourless to pale yellow. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical to elongate-subclavate, thin-walled, without tholus, the wall and the contents I+ blue. Ascospores 3-septate, with parallel septa, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, 15-21 X 4-5 µm. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a mainly arctic-alpine, circumpolar species found on slightly calciferous soil rich in humus, and on terricolous bryophytes near or above treeline; probably restricted to the Alps in Italy, where it is generally rare.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very rare

Subalpine belt: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Aridity:

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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 32921

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (32921)
2001/12/09

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (32921)
2001/12/09