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Lecidea tessellata Flörke var. tessellata

Deutsch. Lich.: 64, 1819.

Synonyms: Lecidea cyanea sensu Th. Fr. non (Ach.) Röhl.; Lecidea homalodes Nyl.; Lecidea magna Lynge; Lecidea occidentalis Lynge; Lecidea spilota Fr.; Lecidea spilota var. intricata (Hepp) Anzi?; Lecidella spilota (Fr.) Körb.

Distribution: N - Frl, Ven, TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004, Favero-Longo & al. 2006b), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999, Isocrono & al. 2008, Favero-Longo & Piervittori 2009, Matteucci & al. 2015c), Emil (Dalle Vedove & al. 2002, Fariselli & al. 2020), Lig (TSB 33420). C - Tosc. S - Si.

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, 1.5-3 mm thick in central parts, forming small patches, sometimes delimited by a grey prothallus, finely rimose-areolate, the areoles contiguous, flat to slightly convex, greyish white to pale bluish grey. Cortex 10-17 µm thick; medulla thick, white, I+ deep blue. Apothecia lecideine, black, adpressed, mostly developed between the areoles, usually clustered, rounded to usually angular in outline, 0.3-2 mm across, with a black, flat to slightly convex, epruinose or weakly pruinose disc, and a thin, often soon excluded proper margin. Proper exciple poorly developed, with a brownish rim, colourless within; epithecium olive-brown, grey or green-black, 10-15 µm high; hymenium colourless or pale green, 40-80 µm high, I+ blue; paraphyses simple or rarely branched, usually not anastomosing, 1.8-2.7 µm thick at mid-level, the apical cell 3.5-6 µm wide; hypothecium colourless to pale brown. Asci 8-spored, clavate, Lecidea-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, 7.5-11 x 3.5-6.5 µm, not halonate, rather thick-walled. Pycnidia semi-immersed, black, the ostiolar region often elongate and almost lirelliform. Conidia bacilliform, 7-19 x 1-1.5 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: confluentic acid (major), 2’-0-methylperlatolic acid.

Note: a cool-temperate to arctic-alpine, circumpolar species (Hertel 2006) found on hard, often mineral-rich siliceous rocks in upland areas, which sometimes starts the life-cycle as a parasite of other crustose lichens, especially Aspicilia spp.; common in the Alps, where it reaches the nival belt, much rarer in the mountains of Southern Italy.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

paras crustose lichens

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: extremely common

Subalpine belt: common

Oromediterranean belt: very rare

Montane belt: 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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 33965

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (33965)
2001/12/08

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

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (33965)
2001/12/08