ITALIC 8.0

Opegrapha deusta Jatta

De Not ex Jatta, N. Giorn. Bot. Ital., 13: 15, 1881.

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Distribution: N - Lig. C - Sar.

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, continuous to finely rimose, ochre-coloured. Apothecia lirelliform, prominent, black, epruinose, round, angular or elongate, with a thin proper margin. Proper exciple black, carbonaceous, extending below the hymenium and forming a kind of stipe; epithecium brownish; hymenium colourless; paraphyses thread-like, coherent. Asci 8 spored, narrowly clavate. Ascospores 3-septate, hyaline, fusiform, c. 3 times as long as wide, surrounded by a gelatinous perispore. Photobiont unknown, but probably trentepohlioid. Spot tests: unknown, but probably all negative. Chemistry: unknown, but probably without lichen substances. (Free translation from the protologue).

Note: a poorly known epiphytic species which needs further study, previously also known from Tunisia and Morocco, and recently reported from the Balearic Islands, with no recent record from Italy. The type material was collected on Olea. See also Nimis (1993: 458).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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: extremely rare

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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

Sorce: JATTA A., 1881. Lichenes novi vel critici in herbario notarisiano contenti. N.GIORN.BOT.ITAL. 13(1):11-16. - Public Domain