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Thelocarpon sphaerosporum H. Magn.

Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl., 2 ed., 9, 5, 1: 305, 1935.

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Distribution: N - TAA (M 0033500, type).

Description: Thallus not apparent (species not lichenized), mostly reduced to small, obconical to cylindrical, bright yellow-pruinose fruiting warts. Ascocarps frequent, apothecioid, rounded, semi-immersed in the warts, 0.1-0.2 mm across, with a flat to concave, finally exposed, yellow-pruinose disc. Hymenial gel I+ red, K/I+ blue; paraphyses simple, slender, longer than the asci. Asci many-spored, spindle-shaped, the wall I+ blue in upper part, the apex thickened into a tholus with a I+ blue ring-structure within. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, globose, 4.5-6 μm wide. Pycnidia small, yellow, flask-shaped. Conidia 4-6 μm long. Photobiont absent. Spot tests: apothecia K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: yellow pruina with pulvinic acid derivatives.

Note: an ephemeral early coloniser of different substrata, including the thalli of other lichens, mostly in upland areas.

Growth form: Crustose

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Pioneer species

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: extremely rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: extremely 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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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF