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Lecanora umbrosa Degel.

Bot. Not.: 105, 1943.

Synonyms: Ionaspis epulotica var. macrocarpa Creveld; Lecanora neglecta (Räsänen) Räsänen; Lecanora sorediifera (Th. Fr.) Räsänen non Fée; Lecanora subfusca var. sorediifera Th. Fr.

Distribution: N - Frl, Ven (TSB 2042), Piem (TSB 34424). C - Sar (Rizzi & al. 2011).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, continuous or areolate-verruculose, whitish to yellowish grey, sorediate, sometimes delimited by a thin white prothallus. Soredia 25-50 µm in diam., arranged in confluent, white to yellowish white, flat to concave, 0.3-0.7(-1) mm wide soralia. Apothecia rather rare, lecanorine, sessile, (0.5-)1-2(-3) mm across, with a red-brown, mostly flat, epruinose disc, and a persistent, entire or flexuose, smooth or partially sorediate thalline margin. Thalline exciple more or less distinctly corticate, with numerous algal cells, the medulla with small crystals partly soluble in K; proper exciple colourless, with crystals insoluble in K; epithecium red-brown to orange-brown, the pigment not dissolving in K, without crystals; hymenium colourless, 60-90 µm high, not inspersed with oil droplets; paraphyses slightly or not thickened at apex; hypothecium colourless, not inspersed. 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, broadly ellipsoid, (9-)11-15(-17) x 6-9(-12) µm, the wall < 1 µm thick. Spot tests: K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P- or P+ pale yellow. Chemistry: atranorin (major), chloroatranorin (minor), and unidentified triterpenoids.

Note: a cool-temperate to circumboreal-montane lichen found on steeply inclined to rain-sheltered surfaces of weakly calciferous or base-rich, weathered siliceous rocks near or above treeline; certainly more widespread in the Alps but overlooked, being often 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)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very rare

Subalpine belt: rather rare

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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Predictive model

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Index Fungorum GBIF

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 11873

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 11873