Lecania cuprea (A. Massal.) van den Boom & Coppins
in van den Boom, Nova Hedwigia, 54: 234, 1992. Basionym: Bilimbia cuprea A. Massal. - Lotos, 6: 77, 1856.
Synonyms: Bacidia albidocarnea (Nyl.) Zahlbr. var. alborubella (Nyl.) Zahlbr.; Bacidia chlorotica sensu Th. Fr.; Bacidia cuprea (A. Massal.) Lettau; Bacidia cupreorosella (Nyl. ex Stizenb.) A. Schneid.; Bacidia prasinoides (Nyl.) Nyl.; Biatora cupreorosella (Stizenb.) Tuck.; Bilimbia cuprea var. areolata A. Massal.; Bilimbia cuprea var. leprosa A. Massal.; Catillaria herbidula (Nyl.) Hulting sensu Hulting; Catillaria umbraticula (Nyl.) P. James; Lecidea cupreorosella Stizenb.
Distribution: N - VG, Frl (TSB 16869), Ven (Lazzarin 2000b), Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004), Lig. C - Tosc (TSB 30001), Laz. S - Cal (Puntillo 1996).
Description: Thallus crustose, pale grey to pale brown, dull, epruinose, areolate, rimose-areolate or granular, up to 0.3 mm thick. Areoles subangular, flat, contiguous, 0.2-0.8 mm wide. Apothecia lecanorine (but thalline margin very soon excluded), sessile or adnate, 0.2-0.4(-0.6) mm across, with a pale beige to dark reddish brown, flat to slightly convex, epruinose disc (when wet becoming darker with a dark pigmented edge) and a thin, smooth margin. Proper exciple colourless or outer part pinkish brown and K+ purple, with narrow, conglutinated hyphae, sometimes with a few algae reaching the lower part, but usually without algae; epithecium colourless to pale brown; hymenium colourless or pale grey and K+ purple in dark apothecia, 45-70 µm high; paraphyses conglutinated in a hyaline gelatinous matrix, simple, 1-1.5 µm thick at base, the apical cells up to 3 µm wide; hypothecium colourless or pale straw-coloured. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical to clavate, with a K/I+ blue tholus and a central non-amyloid area, Bacidia-type. Ascospores (1-)3(-5)-septate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform, (11-)14-21(-28) x 2.5-3 µm. Pycnidia immersed, whitish, sometimes reddish-brown around the ostiole. Conidia filiform, strongly curved, 10-19 x 0.8-1.2 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: a mainly temperate species found on rain-sheltered or vertical surfaces of base-rich to calciferous rocks in rather shaded places, such as in woodlands and gorges, sometimes overgrowing epilithic mosses, perhaps more widespread in Italy.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
In underhangs rarely wetted by rain
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: rare
Submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid mediterranean belt: very rare
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
Herbarium samples
Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[20580], Italia, in Luguria orientali, Bogliasco, (Genova), loco opaco, ad radices es ramulos Hedelae. Leg. C. Sbarbaro, 23.3.1937, det. C. Sbarbaro. LICHENOTHECA PARVA EDITA A SECT. BOT. MUS. HIST.-NAT. HUNG. 1969, NR. 44, (DISTRIBUTED AS BILIMBIA CUPREA A. MASS.)
P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (30625)
2001/12/09
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36926)
2008.02.28
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36926)
2008.02.28
Domenico Puntillo; Owner: Domenico Puntillo
Italy
Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[20580], Italia, in Luguria orientali, Bogliasco, (Genova), loco opaco, ad radices es ramulos Hedelae. Leg. C. Sbarbaro, 23.3.1937, det. C. Sbarbaro. LICHENOTHECA PARVA EDITA A SECT. BOT. MUS. HIST.-NAT. HUNG. 1969, NR. 44, (DISTRIBUTED AS BILIMBIA CUPREA A. MASS.)
Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_3/Lecania_cuprea.htm
France, session AFL 2015 dans le Lot, Blanzaguet
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
In underhangs rarely wetted by rain
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: rare
Submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid mediterranean belt: very rare
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
| Herbarium samples |
Index Fungorum
GBIF
Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[20580], Italia, in Luguria orientali, Bogliasco, (Genova), loco opaco, ad radices es ramulos Hedelae. Leg. C. Sbarbaro, 23.3.1937, det. C. Sbarbaro. LICHENOTHECA PARVA EDITA A SECT. BOT. MUS. HIST.-NAT. HUNG. 1969, NR. 44, (DISTRIBUTED AS BILIMBIA CUPREA A. MASS.)
P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (30625)
2001/12/09
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36926)
2008.02.28
P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36926)
2008.02.28
Domenico Puntillo; Owner: Domenico Puntillo
Italy
Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[20580], Italia, in Luguria orientali, Bogliasco, (Genova), loco opaco, ad radices es ramulos Hedelae. Leg. C. Sbarbaro, 23.3.1937, det. C. Sbarbaro. LICHENOTHECA PARVA EDITA A SECT. BOT. MUS. HIST.-NAT. HUNG. 1969, NR. 44, (DISTRIBUTED AS BILIMBIA CUPREA A. MASS.)
