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Scoliciosporum gallurae Vězda & Poelt

in Nimis & Poelt, Studia Geobot., 7, suppl. 1: 221, 1987.

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Distribution: C - Tosc (TSB 31214), Marc (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Laz (Fornasier & al. 2005), Sar (Zedda 2002).

Description: Thallus subleprose, episubstratic, green to yellowish green, usually forming up to a few mm wide, more or less continuous, rounded patches, sorediate, without a distinct prothallus. Soredia diffuse, up to 25 μm thick, with a distinct wall, often gathered into irregularly rounded to elongate, up to 100 μm thick consoredia mixed with clusters of more or less free algal cells with no evident hyphal envelope. Apothecia biatorine, sessile, scattered to contiguous, pale to dark brown, almost flat to slightly convex, up to 0.2(-0.3) mm across, soon immarginate. Proper exciple of radiating, branched and anastomosed hyphae; epithecium brown, K-, N-, rarely with a greenish tinge and then K-, N+ purple; hymenium colourless, I+ blue; paraphyses c. 1.5 μm thick, strongly branched and anastomosing up to the upper part, immersed in a gelatinous matrix and resembling excipular hyphae; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, broadly clavate, with a broad apical cushion, Lecanora-type. Ascospores (0-1-)3-septate, fusiform, straight to slightly curved, (12-)15-22 x 2.5-3.5(-4) μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid, the cells up to 16 μm in diam. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P- or (in squash preparations only) fleeting C+ red. Chemistry: thallus with traces of gyrophoric acid.

Note: on twigs and branches, more rarely on trunks of coniferous and broad-leaved trees at relatively low elevations; quite common in southern Europe, being often sterile it has been frequently overlooked, and is probably much more widespread, especially in Tyrrhenian Italy.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: very rare

Padanian area: extremely rare

Humid submediterranean belt: rather rare

Humid mediterranean belt: rare

Dry mediterranean belt: extremely rare

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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TSB 23971

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (23971)
2001/11/30