Staurothele geoica Zschacke

Hedwigia, 60: 5, 1918.
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Distribution: N - Frl. C - Tosc (TSB 35304). S - Cal (Puntillo & Puntillo 2004, Puntillo 2011), Si (Nimis & al. 1996b).
Description: Thallus crustose, thinly episubstratic, subgelatinous when wet, dark brown to dark greenish brown, consisting of minutely granulose, goniocyst-like units with a brown pigment at the surface. Perithecia black, forming 0.15-0.25(-0.3) mm wide projections, partly immersed in thallus. Exciple brown throughout; involucrellum absent; hymenium colourless, I+ reddish; hymenial algae globose-cuboid, c. 3 μm wide; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent. Asci 8-spored, clavate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, after dehiscence with a delicate extruded endotunica, I-, K/I-. Ascospores muriform, hyaline to yellowish brown when old, ellipsoid, 28-35(-37) x 11-18 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid, present in both thallus and hymenium. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: on soil amongst bryophytes and on plant debris on more or less calcareous substrata, apparently with a wide altitudinal range. This taxon, however, deserves further study.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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Alpine belt: very rare
Subalpine belt: very rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: very rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: very rare
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples
INDEX FUNGORUM GBIF DOLICHENS


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Herbarium: TSB (38431)
2008.02.25



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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