Miriquidica complanata (Körb.) Hertel & Rambold

Mitt. bot. Staatss. München, 23: 382, 1987. Basionym: Lecanora complanata Körb. - Parerga Lichenol.: 84-85, 1859.
Synonyms: Aspicilia complanata (Körb.) Stein; Aspicilia microlepis Körb.; Aspicilia superiuscula (Nyl.) Hue; Lecanora coracodes Nyl.; Lecanora kultalensis Vain.; Lecanora microlepis (Körb.) Lettau; Lecanora superiuscula Nyl.; Lecanora tenebricans Nyl.; Lecidea vezdae V. Wirth
Distribution: N - TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999). C - Sar (Nöske 2000).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, continuous to rimose-areolate, pale grey to bluish grey, of (0.3)0.4-1(-1.8) mm wide, rounded or minutely lobed, flat to slightly convex areoles scattered on a black hypothallus. Medulla white, I-. Apothecia lecideine, (0.2-)0.5-0.7(-1) mm across, at first immersed in the areoles then slightly prominent, usually 1 per areole, with a dark brown to black, mostly flat disc, and a very thin, poorly evident and soon excluded proper margin. Proper exciple poorly developed, thin, dark brown to olive-brown in outer part, of radiating hyphae; epithecium brown; hymenium colourless to yellowish, 50-65 µm high, I+ blue; paraphyses sparingly branched and more or less anastomosing, 1.5-2 µm thick at mid-level, the apical cell clavate, 3-4.5 µm wide, with a dark cap; hypothecium colourless, yellowish or grey. Asci 8-spored, clavate, approaching the Lecanora-type, but with a well-developed, weakly amyloid tholus and a relatively narrow, non-amyloid axial mass. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid to oblong, (8-)10-16(-18) x (4-)5-6(-7) µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: miriquidic acid.
Note: on moist siliceous rocks in upland areas, starting the life-cycle on yellow Rhizocarpon-species, with optimum above treeline. The identification of the samples from Sardinia is dubious.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
paras Rhizocarpon geographicum when young

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Alpine belt: rare
Subalpine belt: very rare
Oromediterranean belt: extremely rare
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
Herbarium samples
Index Fungorum GBIF


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TSB 16753



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (16753)
2001/11/26


Source: https://nhm2.uio.no/typephotos/lichens/arkiv/O-L-000790d.jpg
POLAND: Kleine Schneegrube (= Maly Sniezny Kocioz), ., Körber, G.W. - Isotype