ITALIC 8.0

Lecanora atromarginata (H. Magn.) Hertel & Rambold

in Elvebakk & Hertel, Norsk Polarinst. Skr., 198: 1996. Basionym: Lecidea atromarginata H. Magn. Meddel. Göteb. Bot. Trädg. - 6: 95, 1931 (“1930”).

Synonyms:

Distribution: N - Ven (Hertel & Schuhwerk 2010), TAA (Hertel & Schuhwerk 2010).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, continuous to rimose, whitish, cream-coloured or pale lemon yellow, forming small, but sometimes coalescing patches to 1 cm in diam, often delimited by a thin, white or black prothallus. Apothecia lecideine (rarely appearing lecanorine when very young), at first half-immersed, then subsessile, rounded to slightly irregular in outline, 0.4-0.6 mm across, with a black, epruinose, flat to convex, and a black, soon excluded proper margin; thalline margin present only in very young apothecia, very soon excluded. Proper exciple brownish green in outer part, colourless within; epithecium yellow-green to green-black; hymenium colourless 35-75 µm high; paraphyses 1.5-2.5 µm thick in lower part, the apical cells 3.5-5-5(-6) µm wide; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, clavate, very thin-walled, with a K/I+ blue, tall tholus penetrated by a faintly amyloid apical cushion, the wall K/I-, surrounded by a blue outer layer, Lecanora-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, (8-)10-12(-14) x (4-)5-6(-7.5) µm. Pycnidia frequent, black. Conidia curved, 11-15 x 0.5-1 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus and apothecial margin K- or K+ yellow, C-, KC+ yellowish, P- or P+ weakly orange, UV-. Chemistry: usnic acid, stictic acid complex.

Note: a holarctic species found on calciferous sandstone and basalt, with optimum above treeline, up to the nival belt; closely related to L. marginata, differing mainly in chemistry (usnic and stictic acids).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rare

Subalpine belt: 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

Index Fungorum GBIF

Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/

Austria, Lindersee
2014

Source: Images of Lichen Types in Herbarium O (Oslo) - http://nhm2.uio.no/typephotos/lichens/typephotoS.php?f=O-L-000696d_s.jpg

RUSSIA: Nov. Semlja: Moræne ved Vasnetsoff Bræ, Matotchkin Shar, 1921.07.22, Lynge, B. .
Herbarium: SYNTYPE O

Images of Lichen Types in Herbarium O (Oslo) - http://nhm2.uio.no/typephotos/lichens/typephotoS.php?f=O-L-000696d_s.jpg RUSSIA: Nov. Semlja: Moræne ved Vasnetsoff Bræ, Matotchkin Shar, 1921.07.22, Lynge, B. . Herbarium: SYNTYPE O

Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/

Austria, Lindersee
2014

Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/

Austria, Lindersee
2014

Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/

Austria, Lindersee
2014