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Glaucomaria lojkaeana (Szatala) S.Y. Kondr., Lőkös & Farkas

in Kondratyuk & al., Acta Bot. Hung. 61, 1-2: 154, 2019. Basionym: Lecanora lojkaeana Szatala - Ann. Hist. nat. Mus. nat. Hung., ser. nov., 5: 136, 1954.

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Distribution: N - Ven (Nascimbene & al. 2021), TAA.

Description: Thallus crustose-subplacodioid, episubstratic, rimose to verrucose-areolate, white to yellowish grey, usually pruinose, sorediate, often delimited by a white, more or less arachnoid prothallus, forming up to 2(-3) cm wide, sometimes confluent patches. Areoles flat to convex, thick, ecorticate, with flat to convex, whitish to bluish grey soralia bearing granulose soredia; marginal areoles distinctly elongate, giving the thallus a placodioid appearance. Apothecia very rare, lecanorine, constricted at base to almost stalked, 0.3-1.5 mm across, with a white- or bluish grey-pruinose disc reacting C+ yellow, and a thin thalline margin, without an inner parathecial ring. Epithecium dark grey, densely inspersed with 1-2 µm thick granules reacting C+ yellow; hymenium colourless; paraphyses 1-1.5 µm thick; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, elongate-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 K/I+ blue outer layer, Lecanora-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 9-14 x 6-7.5 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow, C+ yellow-orange, KC+ orange, P+ pale yellow; apothecial disc C+ yellow. Chemistry: atranorin (major), eugenitol (minor), roccellic acid (major), and sordidone (major).

Note: a rarely collected species known from the Alps, the central European mountains and Scandinavia, found beneath overhanging surfaces of hard siliceous rocks in upland areas; perhaps overlooked and more widespread in the Alps, being almost always sterile.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)

In underhangs rarely wetted by rain

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very rare

Subalpine belt: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model

Einar Timdal - Source: http://nhm2.uio.no/lav/web/index.html - CC BY-NC

Author: Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php