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Gyalideopsis calabrica Puntillo & Vězda

Webbia, 46: 159, 1991.

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Distribution: S - Cal (Puntillo 1996).

Description: Thallus crustose, very thin and film-like, the hyphae often penetrating inside the cells of mosses, grey-green, sometimes poorly visible. Hyphophores hooked, 0.12-0.15 mm wide, shortly stalked, brown or brown-black, forming an apical flange with several short, lateral projections. Diahyphae filiform, multi-septate, not constricted at septa, 70-150 x c. 1.5 µm, straight or slightly curved. Apothecia unknown. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on epiphytic bryophytes and on bark of Fagus in old, undisturbed, very humid forests. This species might prove to be a synonym of G. muscicola P. James & Vězda : the species was established on account of its filiform versus presumably moniliform diahyphae in G. muscicola, but the latter species is characterised by filiform diahyphae as well (see Lücking & al. 2006). It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens as “Critically Endangered” (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by conidia and thalloconidia

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: extremely rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Poleotolerance:

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Predictive model

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Index Fungorum GBIF

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