ITALIC 8.0

Lepraria elobata Tønsberg

Sommerfeltia, 14: 197, 1992.

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Distribution: N - Frl (Baruffo & al. 2006), Ven (Baruffo & al. 2006, Thor & Nascimbene 2007), TAA (Baruffo & al. 2006, Thor & Nascimbene 2007, Nascimbene & al. 2009, 2010, 2014, 2022, Nascimbene 2014, Nascimbene & Marini 2015, Nimis & al. 2015, Trindade & al. 2021), Piem (Baruffo & al. 2006, Matteucci & al. 2010), Emil (Baruffo & al. 2006, Fariselli & al. 2020), Lig (Baruffo & al. 2006). C - Tosc (Baruffo & al. 2006, Benesperi & al. 2007). S - Camp (Baruffo & al. 2006).

Description: Thallus leprose, consisting of a firm mass of soredia-like granules, pale to dirty blue-grey, usually poorly delimited. Medulla not evident. Granules 20-45 μm diam., rather compact, usually without projecting hyphae, well separated from one another, often gathered into up to 120 μm thick consoredia. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P+ orange, UV-. Chemistry: atranorin, stictic, constictic and cryptostictic acids, zeorin and very rarely an unidentified fatty acid (major to trace).

Note: a mainly montane species in Italy, requiring humid conditions; it prefers acid bark not colonised by bryophytes, especially at the base of old trunks, but it rarely occurs also on soil, lignum, epiphytic mosses and siliceous rocks, often on more or less rain-sheltered surfaces.

Growth form: Leprose

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: absent

Subalpine belt: rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: rather common

Submediterranean belt: rather rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: rare

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: extremely rare

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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