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Thelidium exile Arnold

Flora, 65, 26: 410, 1882.

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Distribution: N - TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022).

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic, dirty white to pale grey, often poorly visible. Perithecia black, numerous, 0.1-0.25 mm across, largely immersed in pits in the rock, emerging only with the somewhat pointed apex. Involucrellum absent; exciple dark throughout; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, ellipsoid to clavate, c. 60 x 20 μm, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of a delicate rostrum. Ascospores 1-septate, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid, rounded at both ends, 13-18 x 8-9 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on more or less calciferous rocks in upland areas. The species was frequently considered as a synonym of T. minutulum, but according to Roux & coll. (2014) it differs in having half-projecting perithecia.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: extremely rare

Subalpine belt: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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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

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