Schaereria cinereorufa (Schaer.) Th. Fr.
N. Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 3, 3: 175, 1861. Basionym: Lecidea cinereorufa Schaer. - Lich. Helv. Spicil., 3: 122, 1828.
Synonyms: Lecidea subfurva Nyl.; Psora cinereorufa (Schaer.) Hellb.; Schaereria lugubris (Fr.) Körb.
Distribution: N - Ven, TAA, Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, forming up to 1.3 cm wide patches, areolate, the areoles (0.3-)1-2.5(-3) mm wide, 1-1.5 mm thick, convex, often strongly constricted at base and appearing short-stipitate and subsquamulose, contiguous, wrinkled, forming a grey-brown to dark brown, often reddish-tinged crust which is often delimited by a black prothallus. Apothecia lecideine, black, 0.5-1.2(-1.5) mm across, closely adnate or almost level with thallus, with a concave disc and a thick, persistent proper margin. Proper exciple dark brown; epithecium bluish green to emerald green, K+ intensifying green; hymenium colourless or greenish, (60-)80-100(-120) μm high; paraphyses easily make free in K, mostly simple, the apical cell clearly swollen; hypothecium dark orange-brown. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, thin-walled, with a single wall layer, not thickened apically, only the outermost gelatinous layer K/I+ faintly blue, discharge by splitting of the apex, Schaereria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, globose, (6-)7-9(-11) μm in diam., uniseriately arranged in the asci. Pycnidia dark brown, immersed, the wall dark brown, K-. Conidia bacilliform, 4-6 x c. 1 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests; thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-; medulla sometimes C+ and KC+ pink. Chemistry: medulla with gyrophoric acid (often in very low amounts), plus an unknown compound (Cinereorufa-unknown).Note: an arctic-alpine to boreal-montane, circumpolar species found on inclined to vertical faces of mineral-rich rocks wetted by rain, often near the ground, usually associated with species of Pertusaria; probably restricted to the Alps, where it can reach the nival belt.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: rare
Subalpine belt: very rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Rauher Kulm
Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 44048
Source: http://fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/schaereria-cinereorufa - CC BY-NC
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Hochfels
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Hochfels
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Rauher Kulm
Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 44048
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Rauher Kulm
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: rare
Subalpine belt: very rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
INDEX FUNGORUM
GBIF
DOLICHENS
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Rauher Kulm
Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 44048
Source: http://fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/schaereria-cinereorufa - CC BY-NC
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Hochfels
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Hochfels
Wolfgang von Brackel - CC BY-4.0
Germany, Bavaria, Rauher Kulm
Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 44048
