ITALIC 8.0

Polyozosia zosterae var. palanderi (Vain.) ined.

provisionally placed here, ICN Art. 36.1b. . Basionym: Lecanora palanderi Vain. - Arkiv Bot. 8(4): 48. 1909

Synonyms: Lecanora coerulescens (Baumg.) Arnold; Lecanora hagenii (Ach.) Ach. var. hagenii f. coerulescens (Baumg.) Hazsl.; Lecanora hagenii f. saxifragae Anzi; Lecanora hagenii var. fallax Hepp; Myriolecis hagenii (Ach.) Śliwa, Zhao Xin & Lumbsch var. fallax (Hepp) Hafellner; Myriolecis hagenii var. fallax (Hepp) Hafellner & Türk; Myriolecis zosterae (Ach.) Śliwa, Zhao Xin & Lumbsch var. palanderi (Vain.) Śliwa

Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Hafellner 2000), Ven (Nascimbene 2008c), TAA (Nascimbene 2008b, Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem, VA (Matteucci & al. 2008c), Emil, Lig. C - Marc (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Abr (Nimis & Tretiach 1999, Di Nuzzo & al. 2021, Gheza & al. 2021), Mol (Nimis & Tretiach 2004, Caporale & al. 2008). S - Bas (Nimis & Tretiach 1999).

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, whitish to pale grey, sometimes poorly evident. Apothecia lecanorine, sessile, strongly constricted at base, 0.2-1.5(-3) mm across, with a brownish-black to olivaceous brown, but often densely white-grey-pruinose, mostly flat disc, and a thin, crenulate, white-pruinose thalline margin. Thalline exciple 60-140 μm thick, corticate, without or with a few crystals only; epithecium pale yellow to pale brown, with an epipsamma of crystals soluble in K and insoluble in N; hymenium colourless, 45-60 µm high; paraphyses 1-1.5 μm thick, simple or sparingly branched, the apical cells usually pigmented, up to 3 μm wide; hypothecium colourless or pale yellowish, 60-65 μm high. 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, ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid, (8-)9-13(-16) x 4-6(-7) µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a circumpolar, arctic-alpine lichen found on plant debris and mosses over calciferous substrata from the Oromediterranean belt to the Arctic zone. Common throughout the Alps, also known from the Apennines.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very common

Subalpine belt: extremely common

Oromediterranean belt: rather rare

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Solar irradiation:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 32820

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

Herbarium: TSB (34515)
2002/01/17

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 37381

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

Herbarium: TSB (32820)
2001/12/07