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Polyozosia poeltiana (Clauzade & Cl. Roux) S.Y. Kondr., Lőkös & Farkas

in Kondratyuk & al., Acta Bot. Hung., 62, 1-2: 103, 2020. Basionym: Lecanora poeltiana Clauzade & Cl. Roux - Beih. Nova Hedwigia, 79: 188, 1984.

Synonyms: Lecanora lactea sensu Clauzade & Cl. Roux non (A. Massal.) Leight.; Myriolecis poeltiana (Clauzade & Cl. Roux) Śliwa, Zhao Xin & Lumbsch

Distribution: C - Sar. S - Camp (Nimis & Tretiach 2004, Garofalo & al. 2010), Pugl (Nimis & Tretiach 1999).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rimose or rimose-areolate, white to beige, slightly farinose, 0.1-0.3 mm thick, forming well-delimited small patches 0.5-2(-3) cm in diam. Areoles flat, 0.3-0.8(-1) mm wide, angular, the marginal ones sometimes weakly radiating. Apothecia lecanorine, 0.3-0.5 mm across, usually crowded and sometimes partly confluent, at first immersed in the thallus, then sessile, with a slightly concave to slightly convex, pale reddish brown, epruinose, sometimes umbonate disc, and a thick but hardly raised, smooth thalline margin. Thalline exciple corticate, rich in crystals visible under polarized light; epithecium brown, inspersed with small crystals visible under polarized light; hymenium colourless, 45-60 μm high, also inspersed throughout with crystals, I-; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched in upper part, c. 2 μm thick at base, the apical cells c. 4 μm wide; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, elongate-clavate, very thin-walled, with a K/I+ blue, tall tholus penetrated by a faintly amyloid apical cushion, the wall K/I-, surrounded by a K/I+ blue outer layer, Lecanora-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, subglobose to ellipsoid, 7-12 x 5-7 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-; apothecial disc C+ and KC+ pink. Chemistry: without lichen substances, or (fide Cl. Roux, in litt.) apothecia with variable amounts of gyrophoric acid.

Note: on hard, compact calcareous rocks under the influence of salt-spray; probably more widespread, but certainly not common, along the Mediterranean coast. For the differences from other littoral species of Polyozosia see Bertrand & al. (2010).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Taxon bound to maritime-coastal situations

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: very rare

Dry mediterranean belt: very 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

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Herbarium: TSB (3072)
2001/11/25

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