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Lepraria isidiata (Llimona) Llimona & A. Crespo

in Wirth & al., Guìa de Campo de los Liquenes, Musgos y Hepàticas: 309, 2004. Basionym: Lepraria crassissima var. isidiata Llimona in Vězda - Lich. Sel. Exs., 47: 7 (nr. 1175), 1973.

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Distribution: N - Emil (Nimis & al. 1996, Tretiach & al. 2009, Fariselli & al. 2020). C - Abr (Baruffo & al. 2006), Sar (Leuckert & al. 2004). S - Camp (Baruffo & al. 2006), Cal (Baruffo & al. 2006), Si (Baruffo & al. 2006).

Description: Thallus crustose-subplacodioid to subsquamulose, subleprose, white, pale grey to dark grey in central parts, 0.3-1.4 mm thick, well delimited, forming regular, robust up to 8 cm wide rosettes. Marginal lobes well-developed, pruinose, with raised, thick margins, sometimes with subcorticate, paraplectenchymatous patches; hypothallus usually poorly developed, formed by pale brown, hyphae reacting K-; prothallus absent. Central part of thallus coarsely granular, often slightly convex, loosely attached, with a chalky consistency due to rich deposits of calcium oxalate crystals. Granules isidioid, subspherical to ellipsoid, 0.3-0.5(-0.9) mm thick, with a compact outer layer of heavily encrusted hyphae, and no or poorly developed, 40-50 μm long projecting hyphae, eventually dissolving into soredia-like granules. Medulla white, compact; hypothallus compact, composed of tightly intertwined hyphae. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow or K-, C-, KC- or KC+ yellow, P+ reddish orange. Chemistry: chemotype 1: atranorin, protocetraric, fumarprotocetraric and roccellic acids; chemotype 2: atranorin, protocetraric and roccellic acids; chemotype 3: atranorin, fumarprotocetraric and roccellic acids.

Note: on calciferous soil and on mosses in sheltered situations but in sunny and arid habitats, mostly on surfaces wetted by rain, also on gypsum, below the montane belt.

Growth form: Leprose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

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

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: rather rare

Humid mediterranean belt: very rare

Dry mediterranean belt: rare

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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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Herbarium: TSB 36930

ELena Pittao - CC BY-SA 4.0

Herbarium: TSB 36930

ELena Pittao - CC BY-SA 4.0

Herbarium: TSB 36930

ELena Pittao - CC BY-SA 4.0

Herbarium: TSB 36930