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Thelocarpon epibolum Nyl. var. epithallinum (Leight.) G. Salisb.

North West. Nat.: 70, 1953. Basionym: Thelocarpon epithallinum Leight. - Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 18: 24, 1866.

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Distribution: N - Ven (Brackel 2013, 2016), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2007b, Brackel 2013, 2016).

Description: Thallus crustose, not lichenized, reduced to small, 0.1-0.16 mm wide, scattered, conical to globose, bright yellow-pruinose fruiting warts. Ascocarps frequent, perithecioid, ovoid or conical, immersed in the warts, with a concave, not exposed disc (opening through a small apical pore). Exciple 15-30 μm thick, colourless, without algae; hymenial gel I+ reddish, K/I+ blue; paraphyses simple, slender, not apically thickened, as long as asci. Asci many-spored, flask-shaped, tapering to apex, persistent, the wall I , the apex sometimes (in young asci only) with a thin I+ blue structure. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, oblong-obtuse, thin-walled, 6(-)8-10(-12) x c. 3 μm. Pycnidia rare, flask-shaped, immersed in partly yellow-pruinose warts, with a colourless wall. Conidia oblong-obtuse, simple to 2-septate. Photobiont absent (some green algae may be present at the base of the fruiting warts). Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: yellow pruina with pulvinic acid derivatives.

Note: this variety, characterised by having larger spores, and likely to be non-lichenised, is probably more widespread in the Alps.

Growth form: Lichenicolous fungus

Substrata: lignum, soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

paras

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very 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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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