ITALIC 8.0

Lepraria umbricola Tønsberg

Sommerfeltia, 14: 206, 1992.

Synonyms:

Distribution: C - Tosc (Baruffo & al. 2006), Sar (Zedda 2000a, 2002, Zedda & Sipman 2001, Baruffo & al. 2006).

Description: Thallus leprose, diffuse and poorly delimited, usually rather thin, grey-green, dark green to dull blue-green, finely granular with a powdery appearance, the granules small, 0.06-0.1 mm in diam., the surface compact, mostly without projecting hyphae. Medulla absent or very thin, white; hyphae below thallus usually sparse to abundant in cracks in the substratum, white or sometimes partly brown. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus and subthalline hyphae K+ bright lemon yellow, C-, KC-, P+ bright orange-yellow, UV-. Chemistry: thamnolic acid, sometimes with traces of atranorin and roccellic (angardianic) acid.

Note: a warm-temperate species found on basal parts of old trunks with acid bark, often in crevices and niches at the base of the boles, more rarely on siliceous rocks and mosses, sometimes on and on shaded sandy soil, mostly in deep shade and in rain-sheltered situations; certainly more widespread in Italy.

Growth form: Leprose

Substrata: rocks, bark, 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)

In underhangs rarely wetted by rain

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: very rare

Humid mediterranean belt: very rare

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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

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

Herbarium: TSB (32769)
2001/12/13

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

Herbarium: TSB (32769)
2001/12/13