Opegrapha lutulenta Nyl.

Mém. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, 3: 201, 1855.
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Distribution: N - Lig (Watson 2014). C - Tosc, Sar. S - Si (Ottonello & Puntillo 2009).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rather thick, smooth to granulose, yellowish grey to grey, extended and rimose-areolate, sometimes reduced to a rim surrounding the apothecia. Apothecia lirelliform, black, 0.4-1 x 0.4-0.4 mm, often confluent in rounded to star-shaped clusters, semi-immersed to sessile, with a slit-like disc and a thick proper margin. Proper exciple carbonized, extending below the hymenium; epithecium brownish, 25-30 μm high; hymenium colourless, 85-150 μm high, I+ blue; paraphysoids 2-2.5 μm thick, the apical cells not swollen; subhymenium reddish brown, 25-55 μm high; hypothecium black, carbonized. Asci 8-spored, elongate, cylindrical or elongate-ellipsoid, the inner layer of endoascus amyloid in upper part, with a ring visible around a small ocular chamber, Varia-type. Ascospores 3-septate, hyaline (often turning brownish when overmature), ellipsoid, (15-)17-22 x 5-7 μm, with a thick gelatinous perispore, the wall narrow, uniform or only slightly thickened at septa. Pycnidia black, immersed. Conidia bacilliform, straight, 5-8 x 0.8-1 μm. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: K, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: on steeply inclined surfaces of basic siliceous rocks, often with Dirina and Roccella; restricted to Tyrrhenian Italy.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)
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: rare
Dry mediterranean belt: extremely rare

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples

Manuel Gil
Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife
on volcanic rock



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (16938)
2001/11/27



Domenico Puntillo; Owner: Domenico Puntillo
Italy


Manuel Gil
Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife
on volcanic rock


Manuel Gil
Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife
on volcanic rock



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 16938


Manuel Gil
Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife
on volcanic rock


Manuel Gil
Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife
on volcanic rock


Manuel Gil
Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife
on volcanic rock


Manuel Gil
Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife
on volcanic rock


Manuel Gil
Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife
on volcanic rock