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Reichlingia leopoldii Diederich & Scheid.

Bull. Soc. Nat. Luxemb., 97: 5, 1996.

Synonyms:

Distribution: N - Lomb (Brackel 2010, 2016).

Description: Thallus crustose-subleprose, episubstratic, grey-green in marginal parts, brown in central parts, entirely granulose, up to 2 mm thick, rather felty, usually forming large patches, sometimes delimited by a pale to brownish prothallus. Granules 200-300 µm across, developing on a conspicuous, purplish brown hypothallus, soon disintegrating into 30-50 µm wide soredia (often gathered into larger consoredia), with few or no projecting hyphae. Apothecia absent. Conidia produced in central parts of thallus, in reddish to brownish, irregular, 0.1-0.4 mm wide, sporodochia-like structures which start as separate dark dots and later coalesce covering larger surfaces. Conidiophores dark brown, with a thick, warted wall. Conidia brown, 17-35 µm long, mostly 3-septate and constricted at septa, the individual cells 4-6 x 3.5-5.5 µm, with a strongly warted wall. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC- or KC+ faintly reddish, P-, UV-. Chemistry: 2’-0-methylperlatolic acid.

Note: originally described as a lichenicolous fungus, this species is now recognised as a lichenised hyphomycete (see e.g. Aptroot 2010). It grows under overhangs of siliceous rocks, more rarely on the bark of old oaks in sheltered situations, mostly in the submediterranean belt.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark and rocks

Photobiont: Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by conidia and thalloconidia

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

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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[14961], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Esslingen, Kirchheim u.Teck, an Eiche nahe den Bürgerseen, 370 m.

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Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0

[14961], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Esslingen, Kirchheim u.Teck, an Eiche nahe den Bürgerseen, 370 m.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0

[14961], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Esslingen, Kirchheim u.Teck, an Eiche nahe den Bürgerseen, 370 m.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0

[14961], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Esslingen, Kirchheim u.Teck, an Eiche nahe den Bürgerseen, 370 m.

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0

[14961], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Esslingen, Kirchheim u.Teck, an Eiche nahe den Bürgerseen, 370 m.