Naetrocymbe mori-albae Puntillo & Ravera

Fl. Medit., 23: 6, 2013.
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Distribution: S- Cal (Puntillo & Ravera 2013)
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic, smooth, grey, usually poorly evident, not lichenized. Perithecia black, subglobose, 0.21-0.28 mm across, scattered or arranged in lines of 4-8. Involucrellum dimidiate, dark reddish brown, K-, clypeate, the amorphous pigment localized in the cell walls; exciple very thin, poorly evident, colourless; pseudoparaphyses short- and broad-celled, persistent, moniliform, branched and anastomosing, the cells 6.5-7 µm long, 13-1.9 µm thick. Asci 8-spored, obpyriform, fissitunicate, with two functional wall layers, with a distinctive apical region lacking a nasse, 40-55 µm long. Ascospores 1-septate, constricted at septum, hyaline, with a short upper cell and an elongate, pointed lower cell (tadpole-shaped), 14-17(-20) x 4-5(-6) µm, the mature spores often with a median constriction in the lower cell; perispore thin, visible only in immature spores. Photobiont absent. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: a recently-described, non-lichenised species, to be looked for elsewhere in Italy.
Growth form: Fungus
Substrata: bark
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Pioneer species

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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: rare
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Index Fungorum GBIF


Source: Puntillo D., Ravera S. 2013. Naetrocymbe mori-albae, a new species from Calabria (southern Italy). Fl. Medit., 23: 5-9.


Sonia Ravera
Dehiscence of asci



Domenico Puntillo
Periphysoids (arrow)


Sonia Ravera
Moniliform pseudoparaphyses in TBO


Sonia Ravera
Ascospore


Sonia Ravera
Habitus


Sonia Ravera
Habitus



Domenico Puntillo - CC BY-SA 4.0
Italy



Domenico Puntillo - CC BY-SA 4.0
Italy