Staurothele clopimoides (Bagl. & Carestia) J. Steiner

in Penther & Zederbauer, Ann. naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, 20, 1905: 383, 1907. Basionym: Stigmatomma fissum var. clopimoides Bagl. & Carestia - Comm. Soc. Critt. Ital., 1, 5: 419, 1865.
Synonyms: Sphaeromphale areolata var. clopimoides (Bagl. & Carestia) Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
Distribution: N - Frl (CLU4624), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, continuous to rimose, smooth, copper-brown. Perithecia black, 0.2-0.3 mm across, immersed in the thallus and slightly projecting only with the flattened uppermost part. Exciple pale brown in lower part, darker and merged with the mainly apical involucrellum in the upper half; hymenium I+ blue; hymenial algae oblong to bacilliform, straight or curved, 7-18 x 3 µm; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent. Asci 2-spored, clavate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, after dehiscence with a delicate extruded endotunica, I-, K/I-. Ascospores muriform, brown, ellipsoid, 38-50 x 14-21 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid (Stichococcus), present in both thallus and hymenium. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: a probably circumboreal-montane freshwater species found on siliceous rocks in creeks near and above treeline; restricted to the Alps in Italy.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Periodically submerged (e.g. in creeks)

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Alpine belt: rare
Subalpine belt: rather 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

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Juri Nascimbene - CC BY-SA 4.0
Stelvio National Park, Reg. Trentino-Alto Adige Prov. Trento, Italy.
07.2005



Juri Nascimbene - CC BY-SA 4.0
Stelvio National Park, Reg. Trentino-Alto Adige Prov. Trento, Italy.
07.2005



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Zschacke, H. (1934) Epigloeaceae, Verrucariaceae und Dermatocarpaceae. In: Dr. L. Rabenhorst‘s Kryptogamen-Flora, Band 9, Abt. 1, Teil 1. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 695 pp. - Public Domain


Source: Zschacke H. 1914. Die mitteleuropäische Verrucariaceen. I. Hedwigia, 54: 183-198. Public Domain
5. Schnitt von zwei Perithezien von St. clopimoides Anzi 234 B.