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Lepra waghornei (Hult.) Lendemer & R.C. Harris

Bryologist, 120: 175, 2017.. Basionym: Pertusaria waghornei Hult. - Hedwigia, 35: 191, 1896.

Synonyms: Variolaria waghornei (Hult.) Darb.

Distribution: S - Pugl (Thüs & Licht 2006).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, grey, often granular-warty, thin, continuous. Apothecia immersed in 1.5-2 mm wide, soralia-like thalline warts, 1(-3) per wart, with a widely open, black, but densely and coarsely white-pruinose disc, and an often lacerate, sometimes sorediate thalline margin. Epithecium blackish brown, K+ violet; hymenium colourless, often poorly developed; paraphyses sparingly branched, slender, 1.5-2 µm thick; hypothecium colourless. Asci 1-spored, broadly cylindrical, the apex without a distinct ocular chamber, the outer sheath K/I+ blue, otherwise K/I–, with an inner extensible layer, Pertusaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, 70-125(-150) x (25-)30-40(-45) µm, the wall smooth, uniformly c. 3 µm thick. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: medulla K+ yellow turning red, C-, KC-, P+ yellow-orange. Chemistry: medulla with norstictic and connorstictic acids

Note: a suboceanic epiphytic lichen reported from the Gargano Peninsula, whose nearest populations are in humid forests of the northern Alps.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: extremely rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

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

Index Fungorum GBIF

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[8955], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Buchenwäldchen an der Straße Nr. 182 zwischen Franklin und Cherryfield, 44°36.560’ N, 68°01.146’ W, 60 m. Leg. et det. F. Schumm 23.08.2001

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[8955], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Buchenwäldchen an der Straße Nr. 182 zwischen Franklin und Cherryfield, 44°36.560’ N, 68°01.146’ W, 60 m. Leg. et det. F. Schumm 23.08.2001

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[8955], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Buchenwäldchen an der Straße Nr. 182 zwischen Franklin und Cherryfield, 44°36.560’ N, 68°01.146’ W, 60 m. Leg. et det. F. Schumm 23.08.2001

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[8955], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Buchenwäldchen an der Straße Nr. 182 zwischen Franklin und Cherryfield, 44°36.560’ N, 68°01.146’ W, 60 m. Leg. et det. F. Schumm 23.08.2001

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[8955], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Buchenwäldchen an der Straße Nr. 182 zwischen Franklin und Cherryfield, 44°36.560’ N, 68°01.146’ W, 60 m. Leg. et det. F. Schumm 23.08.2001

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[8955], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Buchenwäldchen an der Straße Nr. 182 zwischen Franklin und Cherryfield, 44°36.560’ N, 68°01.146’ W, 60 m. Leg. et det. F. Schumm 23.08.2001

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[8955], USA, Maine, Washington Co., Buchenwäldchen an der Straße Nr. 182 zwischen Franklin und Cherryfield, 44°36.560’ N, 68°01.146’ W, 60 m. Leg. et det. F. Schumm 23.08.2001
1: norstictic acid , 2: connorstictic acid, 3: unknown, 4: terpene from bark, 5: subnorstictic acid, conf. J.A. Elix