Ochrolechia turneri (Sm.) Hasselrot
Svensk Bot. Tidskr., 39: 130, 1945. Basionym: Lichen turneri Sm. in Smith & Sowerby - Engl. Bot., 12: tab. 857, 1801.
Synonyms: Buellia farinosa Malme; Lecanora parella var. turneri (Sm.) Arnold; Lecanora turneri (Sm.) Ach.; Ochrolechia alboflavescens var. turneri (Sm.) Verseghy; Ochrolechia pallescens var. turneri (Sm.) Körb.; Ochrolechia parella var. turneri (Sm.) Arnold; Pertusaria henrici Harm. ex Erichsen; Pertusaria leprarioides auct. p.max.p. non Erichsen
Distribution: N - VG (TSB 25973), Ven (Nascimbene & Caniglia 2000, 2003c), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2007b), Emil (Fariselli & al. 2020), Lig (Giordani & al. 2025). C - Tosc (Loppi & al. 1997, 1998b, Loppi & Frati 2006), Marc (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Umb (Panfili 2000b, Ravera & al. 2006), Laz (Ravera 2002b), Abr (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Mol (Caporale & al. 2008, Paoli & al. 2015), Sar (Loi & al. 2000, Zedda & al. 2001, Zedda 2002, Stofer 2006). S - Pugl (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Bas (Potenza & al. 2014, Cassola & al. 2025), Si (Schicchi & al. 1997, Ottonello & Isocrono 2004, Stofer 2006, Campisi & al. 2020).
Description: Thallus crustose, thin to thick, usually continuous to cracked, rarely tuberculate, whitish-grey or grey, sometimes delimited by a thick, zoned, white to brownish-pink prothallus. Soralia small, <0.5 mm diam., often excavate and in lines, more rarely flat to convex, orbicular to irregular, usually discrete, sometimes confluent in central parts of thallus. Soralia granular, 40-60(-75) µm wide, white-grey to grey, sometimes with a brownish tinge, usually paler than thallus. Apothecia rare, lecanorine, 0.5-2 mm across, with a flesh-coloured, densely white-pruinose, at first concave then flat disc surrounded by a salmon-pink, pruinose discoid tissue and by a thick, wrinkled, usually sorediate thalline margin. Thalline exciple corticate in non-sorediate parts, the cortex up to 100 µm thick at base; proper exciple usually distinct in non-sorediate parts; epithecium brownish, C+ red; hymenium colourless, 175–220 µm high; paraphyses thin, densely branched and anastomosing; hypothecium pale yellow. Asci 4-6-spored with thick, amyloid walls, without recognizable apical structures, Pertusaria-like. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, thin-walled, several curved or constricted in the middle or in 1/3 of the length, (35-)40-50(-62) x (11-)15-22(-25) µm. Spot tests: thalline cortex C– or C+ very faintly yellow; cortex of the apothecial margin C+ yellow; medulla C-, KC-; soralia K-, C+ yellow, KC- or KC+ faintly pink, P-, UV+ glaucous with an orange tinge; apothecial disc C+ red. Chemistry: variolaric acid and sometimes alectoronic acid concentrated in the soredia and in the cortex of apothecial margin; 'microstictoides unknowns' 1–2; epithecium with gyrophoric (major) and lecanoric acid (minor). Note: on bark of isolated (mostly) deciduous trees in open, humid, montane to subalpine woodlands.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: very rare
Submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
Herbarium samples
P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (30217)
2001/12/10
P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 26349
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1289&lang=en
France, Les Bouilloises
cf.
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1289&lang=en
France, Les Bouilloises
cf.
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1289&lang=en
France, Les Bouilloises
cf.
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1289&lang=en
France, Les Bouilloises
cf.
Erichsen C.F.E. 1936. Pertusariaceae. - In: Dr. L. Rabenhorsts Kryptogamenflora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Bd. IX, Abt. 5, T. 1. Akad. Verlagsges., Leipzig, pp. 321-512, 513-728. - Public Domain
Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1022], Österreich, Steiermark, Niedere Tauern, Donnersbacher Alpen, Morsbachhütte, an Arve, ca. 1200 m. Leg. E. Erich Putzler, 10.08.1955, det. O. Klement, 1970. - Thallus und Soredien: K-, KC-, C-, P-; Discus: C+ rot, KC+ rot.
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1022], Österreich, Steiermark, Niedere Tauern, Donnersbacher Alpen, Morsbachhütte, an Arve, ca. 1200 m. Leg. E. Erich Putzler, 10.08.1955, det. O. Klement, 1970. - Thallus und Soredien: K-, KC-, C-, P-; Discus: C+ rot, KC+ rot.
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1328], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Göppingen, Im
"Oberholz" beim Waldheim, TK: 7223. Leg. F. Schumm, 09.04.1968, det. V.
Wirth - Own Chemistry p126/7: variolaric acid + unknown (major). C-, K-, P-. -
(Von mir ursprünglich als Pertusaria henrici (Harm.) Erichs. bestimmt und so von
Oscar Klement bestätigt).
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1328], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Göppingen, Im
"Oberholz" beim Waldheim, TK: 7223. Leg. F. Schumm, 09.04.1968, det. V.
Wirth - Own Chemistry p126/7: variolaric acid + unknown (major). C-, K-, P-. -
(Von mir ursprünglich als Pertusaria henrici (Harm.) Erichs. bestimmt und so von
Oscar Klement bestätigt).
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: very rare
Submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
| Herbarium samples |
P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (30217)
2001/12/10
P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 26349
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1289&lang=en
France, Les Bouilloises
cf.
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1289&lang=en
France, Les Bouilloises
cf.
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1289&lang=en
France, Les Bouilloises
cf.
Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1289&lang=en
France, Les Bouilloises
cf.
Erichsen C.F.E. 1936. Pertusariaceae. - In: Dr. L. Rabenhorsts Kryptogamenflora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Bd. IX, Abt. 5, T. 1. Akad. Verlagsges., Leipzig, pp. 321-512, 513-728. - Public Domain
Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1022], Österreich, Steiermark, Niedere Tauern, Donnersbacher Alpen, Morsbachhütte, an Arve, ca. 1200 m. Leg. E. Erich Putzler, 10.08.1955, det. O. Klement, 1970. - Thallus und Soredien: K-, KC-, C-, P-; Discus: C+ rot, KC+ rot.
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1022], Österreich, Steiermark, Niedere Tauern, Donnersbacher Alpen, Morsbachhütte, an Arve, ca. 1200 m. Leg. E. Erich Putzler, 10.08.1955, det. O. Klement, 1970. - Thallus und Soredien: K-, KC-, C-, P-; Discus: C+ rot, KC+ rot.
Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[1328], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Göppingen, Im "Oberholz" beim Waldheim, TK: 7223. Leg. F. Schumm, 09.04.1968, det. V. Wirth - Own Chemistry p126/7: variolaric acid + unknown (major). C-, K-, P-. - (Von mir ursprünglich als Pertusaria henrici (Harm.) Erichs. bestimmt und so von Oscar Klement bestätigt).
