Thelidium auruntii (A. Massal.) Kremp.

Denkschr. kgl. bayer. bot. Ges., Abt. 2 4: 248, 1861. Basionym: Verrucaria auruntii A. Massal. - Symmicta Lich: 77, 1855.
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Distribution: N - Ven (Lazzarin 2000b, Ravera & al. 2021), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lig. C - Sar.
Description: Thallus crustose, thinly episubstratic, more or less continuous to rimose, pale brownish grey, dark brown to almost black, sometimes delimited by a dark prothallus. Perithecia black, sparse, (0.2-)0.3-0.4(-0.5) mm across, half immersed in the thallus, the emerging part hemispherical, smooth, sometimes slightly flattened at top. Involucrellum limited to the upper half of the perithecium, rarely extending to the base, 30-80 μm thick, adpressed to exciple or diverging; exciple brown to brown-black throughout, c. 17-20 μm thick; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids measuring c. 20-40(-50) x 1.5-2 μm, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, ellipsoid to clavate, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of a delicate rostrum. Ascospores (0-)1-septate, hyaline, ellipsoid, (20-)21-26(-35) x 9-13(-15) μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: differing from T. pyrenophorum in the well-developed, brown thallus and the smaller spores, this species, also known from Scandinavia, grows on limestone, dolomite and calciferous schists in upland areas.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples
INDEX FUNGORUM GBIF DOLICHENS


J. Nascimbene CC BY-SA 4.0
Italy, Veneto, Tofane
Herb. J.Nascimbene



J. Nascimbene CC BY-SA 4.0
Italy, Veneto, Tofane
Herb. J.Nascimbene


Collezione lichenologica Abramo Massalongo del Museo di Storia Naturale G. Ligabue di Venezia - Autori: Seggi, Linda; Trabucco, Raffaella Proprietà: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - CC BY-NC
Italy, Veneto, n opp. Auronzo Cadubriae 1855
as Verrucaria auruntii ISOTYPE


Source: 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: • Breuss O. 2004. Neue Flechtenfunde, vorwiegend pyrenocarper Arten, aus Oberösterreich. Öst. Z. Pilzk., 13: 267-275.


Source: Servít M. 1954a. Lichenes familiae Verrucariacearum. Prag, 249 pp.
as Involucrothele auruntii