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Hydropunctaria ligurica (Zschacke) Cl. Roux

Cat. Lich. France: 1314, 2015, comb. inval.. Basionym: Verrucaria ligurica Zschacke - Hedwigia, 65: 47, 1924.

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Distribution: N - Lig.

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, dark olive-brown to olive-black, subgelatinous when wet, continuous or rimose, smooth or usually with slightly raised punctiform warts or short ridges. Cortex scarcely differentiated, with a brown, pigment reacting K-; photobiont cells arranged in vertical rows; medulla with pillars of dark brown to black tissue often reaching the thallus surface. Perithecia black, largely immersed into up to 0.45 m wide thalline warts, projecting with the crater-like ostiolar region. Involucrellum thick reaching to base-level; exciple black, globose, 0.16-0.22 mm across; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel amyloid, I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, clavate, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of an endotunica to form a delicate rostrum, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, oblong-ellipsoid, 12-18 x 6-8 μm. Pycnidia immersed, with colourless wall and ostiole. Conidia rod-shaped. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a poorly known species of coastal calcareous rocks in the supralittoral zone, described from Liguria and also reported from southern France (Roux & coll. 2014).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Periodically submerged (e.g. in creeks)

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

Taxon bound to maritime-coastal situations

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: rare

Dry mediterranean belt: rare

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Zschacke, H. (1934) Epigloeaceae, Verrucariaceae und Dermatocarpaceae. In: Dr. L. Rabenhorst‘s Kryptogamen-Flora, Band 9, Abt. 1, Teil 1. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 695 pp. - Public Domain