Pyrgidium montellicum (Beltr.) Tibell
Lichenologist, 14: 239, 1982. Basionym: Acolium montellicum Beltr. - Lich. Bassan.: 285, 1858.
Synonyms:
Distribution: N - Ven (Nascimbene & Marini 2010).
Description: Thallus crustose, thinly episubstratic, continuous and farinose, whitish, very pale straw-yellow to yellowish grey. Apothecia sessile to shortly stalked, 0.13-0.29 mm high and 0.16-0.33 mm wide, almost spherical to ovoid, without a thalline margin. Mazaedium black, filling the apothecial cavity and more or less projecting above the excipular margin. Proper exciple prosoplectenchymatous, dark brown, (10-)22-32(-55) µm thick laterally, gradually attenuating towards the margin, (27-)40-80(-90) µm thick at base; paraphyses 0.4-2 µm thick, septate, unbranched. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, unitunicate, short pedicellate, persisting almost until the spores have reached full maturity, blunt-tipped, not narrowing towards the apex, which is at first thickened, later reduced or inconspicuous, with uniseriately arranged spores. Ascospores 1-septate, pale to dark brown, broadly ellipsoid to oval, (4-)5.5-6.5(-10) x (2-)3-3.5(-5) µm, with a minute ornamentation of short, irregular, longitudinally arranged ridges. Photobiont absent (sometimes loosely associated with mainly trentepohlioid algae). Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.Note: a mainly tropical species described from the Insubrian region of Italy (the only European record), where it is probably extinct. The hitherto known distribution includes Italy, India, Colombia, and Costa Rica. It is included as “Regionally Extinct” in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).
Growth form: Fungus
Substrata: bark
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Restricted to humid-warm, oceanic areas
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
D. Puntillo CC BY-SA 04
leg. Tibell, CLU nr. 11316
Domenico Puntillo CC BY-SA 4.0
leg. Tibell, CLU nr. 11316
Chris Tuccinardi, US Herbarium data manager (tuccinar@si.edu) - CC BY-SA NC 3.0
Domenico Puntillo CC BY-SA 4.0
leg. Tibell, CLU nr. 11316
Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL11449], Brazil, Rondônia, Porto Velho, Parque Circuito. 8°43'54''
S, 63°54'04'' W, 100 m. On Hevea brasiliensis bark in plantation. Leg.
M. Cáceres & A. Aptroot, (no. 11449), 11 March 1012, det. A. Aptroot
2012.
Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL11449], Brazil, Rondônia, Porto Velho, Parque Circuito. 8°43'54''
S, 63°54'04'' W, 100 m. On Hevea brasiliensis bark in plantation. Leg.
M. Cáceres & A. Aptroot, (no. 11449), 11 March 1012, det. A. Aptroot
2012.
Growth form: Fungus
Substrata: bark
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Restricted to humid-warm, oceanic areas
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
Index Fungorum
GBIF
D. Puntillo CC BY-SA 04
leg. Tibell, CLU nr. 11316
Domenico Puntillo CC BY-SA 4.0
leg. Tibell, CLU nr. 11316
Chris Tuccinardi, US Herbarium data manager (tuccinar@si.edu) - CC BY-SA NC 3.0
Domenico Puntillo CC BY-SA 4.0
leg. Tibell, CLU nr. 11316
Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL11449], Brazil, Rondônia, Porto Velho, Parque Circuito. 8°43'54'' S, 63°54'04'' W, 100 m. On Hevea brasiliensis bark in plantation. Leg. M. Cáceres & A. Aptroot, (no. 11449), 11 March 1012, det. A. Aptroot 2012.
