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Rhizocarpon ferax H. Magn.

Bot. Not., 101: 405, 1948.

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Distribution: N - TAA (Nascimbene 2005).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, yellow-green, to yellow-grey, areolate, usually delimited by a black prothallus, forming small patches 0.5-1 cm in diam, rarely up to 3 cm. Areoles 0.5-1 mm wide, usually scattered over a black hypothallus, rarely forming a continuous crust, mostly crescent-shaped around the apothecia, convex, smooth, dull. Cortex poorly differentiated, c. 40 µm thick; medulla white, I+ blue. Apothecia lecideine, black, 0.4-0.7 mm across, round to weakly angular, with a concave to flat disc, and a rather thick, persistent proper margin. Proper exciple brownish, K+ brownish red; epithecium greenish brown to green, K- or K+ intensifying green; hymenium colourless to greenish in upper part, 130-200 µm high; apical cells of paraphysoids clavate, transparent; hypothecium brownish, K-, 50-200 µm high. Asci 8-spored, clavate, fissitunicate, with a well-developed tholus, lacking an ocular chamber, Rhizocarpon-type. Ascospores muriform, dark brown, ellipsoid 25-40(-54) x 14-18(-25) µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: medulla K-, C-, KC-, P+ yellow. Chemistry: cortex with rhizocarpic acid, medulla with psoromic acid.

Note: on siliceous rocks near and above treeline, starting the life-cycle on other crustose lichens; probably more widespread in the Alps.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

paras crustose lichens

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very rare

Subalpine belt: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: 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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php (Courtesy: Anita Stridvall)

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php (Courtesy: Anita Stridvall)

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php (Courtesy: Anita Stridvall)