Arthopyrenia cinerescens A. Massal.
Symmicta Lich.: 108, 1855.
Synonyms:
Distribution: N - Ven (Lazzarin 2000b), TAA.
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, greenish grey to lead-grey, sometimes delimited by a dark prothalline line, doubtfuly lichenized. Perithecia black, numerous, hemispherically projecting with a widened base, often clustered. Involucrellum dimidiate; exciple black; paraphysoids persistent but scarce, branched and anastomosing. Asci 6-8-spored, subcylindrical, fissitunicate. Ascospores 3-septate, clavate, hyaline, 15-28 x 4-6 μm. Pycnidia immersed in c. 0.2 mm wide, hemispherical, black warts, with branched conidiophous hyphae. Conidia bacilliform, straight, c. 6 x 2 μm, often arranged in short chains. Photobiont absent or trentepohlioid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.Note: an early coloniser of base-rich bark, also known from Slovenia. The type material was growing on Fraxinus; this is the type species of the monotypic genus Arthopyreniella Stein., based on differences in pycnidial apparatus. According to Harris (1973) material distributed by Massalongo in Lich. Exs. Ital. 43 is Mycoglaena meridionalis (Zahlbr.) Szatala.
Growth form: Fungus
Substrata: bark
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Pioneer species
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: rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

Predictive model
Herbarium samples

Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.

Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.

Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.
Growth form: Fungus
Substrata: bark
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Pioneer species
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: rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

Predictive model
Herbarium samples |

Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.

Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.
