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Scoliciosporum pruinosum (P. James) Vězda

Folia Geobot. Phytotaxon., 13: 414, 1978. Basionym: Bacidia pruinosa P. James - Lichenologist, 5: 117, 1971.

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Distribution: N - VG. C - Laz (TSB 17669). S - Cal (Puntillo 1996, Puntillo 2011).

Description: Thallus crustose, thinly episubstratic, whitish, finely granulose, sometimes evanescent. Apothecia biatorine, 0.1-0.4 mm across, whitish to pale pink-coloured when young, pale brown at the end, from the beginning strongly convex and immarginate, sometimes subglobose and tuberculate, often white-pruinose. Proper exciple of radiating, branched and anastomosed hyphae; epithecium colourless to pale yellowish brown, with a layer of yellowish granules dissolving in K; hymenium colourless, I+ blue; paraphyses strongly branched and anastomosing, immersed in a gelatinous matrix and resembling excipular hyphae, not swollen at apices. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, with a K/I+ blue apical dome penetrated by a narrow, K/I- apical cushion surrounded by a narrow, deeply K/I+ blue zone, the wall K/I- but surrounded by a I+ red-brown and K/I+ blue outer layer, the ocular chamber small, Biatora-type. Ascospores indistinctly 3-5-septate, hyaline, 20-35(-40) x 1-1.5 µm strongly curved at least at one end, often S-shaped, spirally twisted in the asci. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-; apothecia fleeting KC+ red. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances; lobaric acid reported in the pruina of apothecia.

Note: a mild-temperate species found on bark, especially of old oaks, usually on surfaces protected from rain, with optimum in humid deciduous, more rarely evergreen forests, often along rivers. Perhaps it does not belong to Scoliciosporum. It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens as “Endangered” (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).

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)

In underhangs rarely wetted by rain

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: very rare

Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 15129

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

Herbarium: TSB (15129)
2001/11/30