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Kiliasia philippea (Mont.) Hafellner

Beih. Nova Hedwigia, 79: 265, 1984.. Basionym: Lecidea philippea Mont. - Ann. Sc. Nat., Bot. ser. 3, 12: 291, 1849.

Synonyms: Catillaria arctica Lynge; Catillaria areolata H. Magn.; Catillaria cirtensis (Stizenb.) Flagey; Catillaria holtedahlii Lynge; Catillaria kansuensis H. Magn.; Catillaria ligustica B. de Lesd.; Catillaria lutosa A. Massal.; Catillaria philippea (Mont.) A. Massal.; Catillaria riparia (Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr.; Catillaria subgrisea (Nyl.) Flagey; Kiliasia riparia (Müll. Arg.) Hafellner; Lecidea capitata Anzi; Lecidea cirtensis Stizenb.; Lecidea subgrisea Nyl.; Patellaria riparia Müll. Arg.; Toninia philippea (Mont.) Timdal

Distribution: N - Ven, TAA, Lomb, Lig. C - Tosc, Umb (Genovesi & Ravera 2001, Ravera & al. 2006), Abr (Nimis & Tretiach 1999, Caporale & al. 2016), Sar. S - Si (Brackel 2008b).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rimose to areolate, the areoles up to 0.8(-1.2) mm wide, adjacent, flat to slightly convex, yellowish to reddish brown, epruinose. Cortex up to 40 µm thick, lacking calcium oxalate crystals and an epinecral layer; medulla white, often with crystals of calcium oxalates. Apothecia lecideine, black, 0.2-0.8 mm across, with a flat to finally convex, epruinose or faintly pruinose disc, and a thin, soon excluded proper margin. Proper exciple greenish brown to dark green in outer part, pale brown to reddish brown within, without crystals; epithecium bright to dark green, K-, N+ violet, without crystals 7-16(-20) µm high; hymenium colourless, 50-75 μm high; paraphyses easily made free, 1.5-2.5 µm thick, the apical cells clavate, up to 6.5 µm wide, surrounded by a pigmented gel; hypothecium dark reddish brown, (70-)90-135(-160) µm high. Asci 8-spored, clavate, surrounded by a gelatinous I+ blue coat, with a well-developed I+ blue tholus, a I+ darker blue tube and a well-developed ocular chamber, Bacidia-type. Ascospores 1-septate, hyaline, ellipsoid, 10-15.5 x 4.5-6 µm. Pycnidia black, immersed or partly projecting. Conidia filiform. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances, or with unknown terpenoids.

Note: an incompletely holarctic lichen of dry areas, found on limestone, dolomite, calciferous sandstone and schists in open situations, most common in dry grasslands, with a wide altitudinal range.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Subcontinental: restricted to areas with a dry-subcontinental climate (e.g. dry Alpine valleys, parts of Mediterranean Italy)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: extremely rare

Subalpine belt: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: very rare

Montane belt: extremely rare

Submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Humid mediterranean belt: very rare

Dry mediterranean belt: very rare

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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