Parmeliella parvula P.M. Jørg.

Skr. Norske Vidensk.-Akad., Mat.-Naturv. Kl., N.S., 36: 19, 1977.
Synonyms: Parmeliella jamesii Ahlner & P.M. Jørg.
Distribution: C - Tosc.
Description: Thallus squamulose, blue grey, consisting of 1-2 mm wide, 100-150 µm thick, finally elongate, concave to flat, blue-grey squamules with well-delimited but often interrupted, marginal soralia bearing pale blue-grey, coarse-grained soredia. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, 30-40 µm thick; medulla white; lower cortex absent. Apothecia very rare, biatorine, up to 0.5 mm across, with a flat to convex, red-brown disc which tends to turn blackish with age, and a persistent to finally exccluded, paler proper margin. Epithecium brownish; hymenium colourless to yellowish brown, I+ persistently deep blue; paraphyses simple, not or only slightly thickened at apices; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, subcylindrical to clavate, with a I+ blue tholus and an internal, more intensely I+ blue tubular structure. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 15-18 x 10-12 µm, with a thin, finely warted epispore. Photobiont cyanobacterial (Nostoc the cells in clusters). Spot tests: thallus and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: a mild-temperate to oceanic-boreal lichen, mainly corticolous on ancient trees in open, but very humid forests, but also found on silicicolous bryophytes. It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens as “Critically Endangered” (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).
Growth form: Squamulose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: cyanobacteria, filamentous (e.g. Nostoc, Scytonema)
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Restricted to humid-warm, oceanic areas

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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: extremely rare
Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model
Index Fungorum GBIF


Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley, Dawson Falls Date: 2012-04-08 On wood of Thuja log suspended over river shore, in waterfall sprayzone


Curtis Bjork - CC BY SA 4.0
Canada, British Columbia, British Columbia, Clearwater Valley, Dawson Falls


United States National Herbarium - Smithsonian (US:Lichens) . CC BY-SA NC
New Zealand


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1324&lang=en
France, Pyrénées Cauterets


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1324&lang=en
France, Pyrénées Cauterets


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1324&lang=en
France, Pyrénées Cauterets


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1324&lang=en
France, Pyrénées Cauterets


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1324&lang=en
France, Pyrénées Cauterets


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1324&lang=en
France, Pyrénées Cauterets


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1324&lang=en
France, Pyrénées Cauterets