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Strangospora pinicola (A. Massal.) Körb.

Parerga Lichenol.: 173, 1860. Basionym: Sarcogyne pinicola A. Massal. - Lotos, 6: 78, 1856.

Synonyms: Biatorella pinicola (A. Massal.) Anzi

Distribution: N - Frl, Lomb. C - Tosc (Putortì & al. 1999c, Loppi & al. 2004, Loppi & Baragatti 2011), Umb (Ravera 1999, Ravera & al. 2006). S - Camp (Nimis & Tretiach 2004), Si (Campisi & al. 2020).

Description: Thallus crustose, thin and evanescent to rather thick, granular-warted, pale grey to grey-brown. Apothecia biatorine, 0.2-0.5 mm across, often arranged in small clusters of 2-4, with a dark red-brown, strongly convex disc, and a thin to almost absent proper margin. Proper exciple poorly developed, brownish in outer part, colourless within, K-; epithecium yellow-brown to brown, K+ red brown, N+ orange-brown; hymenium colourless, 55-65 µm high; paraphyses strongly coherent, branched and anastomosing, 1.5-2 µm thick; hypothecium colourless to pale yellow, 50-110 µm high. Asci c. 100-spored, broadly clavate, thickened in upper part, without a gelatinous outer layer, the wall and well-developed apical dome strongly K/I+ blue. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline globose, (1.5-)2-2.5 µm wide. Pycnidia rare, globose, colourless to pale brown. Conidia 3-4 x c. 1 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid, with ellipsoid cells. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on hard lignum (e.g. on poles) and on acid bark, especially of conifers; perhaps more widespread in the Alps. It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens as “Vulnerable” (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark and lignum

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: extremely 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

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

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 32255

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

Herbarium: TSB (34301)
2001/12/08

E. Pittao; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (TSB 32617)
20.10.2009

E. Pittao; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (TSB 32617)
20.10.2009

E. Pittao; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (TSB 32617)
20.10.2009

Magnusson A. H. (1935) Acarosporaceae, Thelocarpaceae. - In: Rabenhorst G. L.: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich, und der Schweiz-. 2nd- IX. Die Flechten. Abt. 5- 1. Gebr. Borntraeger. Leipzig, pp. 1-318. – Public Domain

E. Pittao; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (TSB 32617)
20.10.2009

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 32255

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 32255

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 32255

E. Pittao CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 32617

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 32255

Ulrich Kirschbaum

Central Europe: Germany.

Ulrich Kirschbaum

Central Europe; Germany: Hesse. Coll/ident Ute Windisch

Ulrich Kirschbaum

Central Europe; Germany: Hesse. Coll/ident Ute Windisch