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Staurothele terricola (Bagl.) Poelt & Nimis

in Nimis & Poelt, Studia Geobot., 7, suppl. 1: 226, 1987. Basionym: Polyblastia terricola Bagl. - N. Giorn. Bot. Ital., 11: 113, 1879.

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Distribution: C - Sar.

Description: Thallus crustose, thinly episubstratic, grey, greenish when wet, continuous. Perithecia half immersed, not flattened, black. Paraphyses absent, substituted by periphyses. Hymenium I+ reddish; hymenial algae rectangular, rarely a few of them squared in outline; 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, ellipsoid, 36-43 x 13-17 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid, present in both thallus and hymenium. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: known only from clearings of Mediterranean garrigues in Sardinia, this terricolous species needs 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

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: very 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

Index Fungorum GBIF