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Toninia subfuscae (Arnold) Timdal

Opera Bot., 110: 101, 1991. Basionym: Celidium subfuscae Arnold in Zwackh - Flora, 47: 87, 1864.

Synonyms: Bacidia subfuscae (Arnold) Clauzade & Cl. Roux; Bilimbia subfuscae (Arnold) Arnold; Lecidea subfuscaria Nyl.; Mycobilimbia subfuscae (Arnold) Rehm

Distribution: N - VG (TSB 2287, Brackel 2016), Emil (Gasparo & Tretiach 1996, Nimis & al. 1996, Brackel 2016, Fariselli & al. 2020). C - Tosc (TSB 10381, Brackel 2016), Sar (Brackel 2016). S - Bas (Brackel 2011, 2016), Si (Nimis & al. 1996b, Brackel 2016).

Description: Thallus not lichenized, growing on saxicolous lichens. Apothecia lecideine, up to 0.6 mm across, black, rounded, with a flat to slightly convex disc and a thin, more or less persistent, epruinose margin. Proper exciple dark reddish brown, usually with a green tinge, K-, N+ violet, lacking crystals; epithecium olivaceous to dark green; hymenium colourless, 50-60 µm tall; hypothecium reddish brown, without crystals. Asci 8-spored, clavate, surrounded by a gelatinous I+ blue coat, with a well-developed I+ blue tholus with a I+ darker blue tube and a well-developed ocular chamber, Bacidia-type. Ascospores 1-3-septate, hyaline, ellipsoid to shortly bacilliform, often slightly curved, 9.5-16 x 4-5.5 µm. Photobiont absent. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: no lichen substances in thallus.

Note: a lichenicolous fungus found in the thallus of different epilithic (e.g. Lecanora campestris, Protoparmeliopsis muralis, Lecidella scabra) and also epiphytic (Lecanora subfusca s.lat.) crustose lichens.

Growth form: Lichenicolous fungus

Substrata: bark

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

paras Lecanora and Lecidella spp.

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: very rare

Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Aridity:

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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

Manuel Gil

Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 10381

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (10381)
2001/12/11
on the host, Lecanora albescens

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (2287)
2001/12/11
on the host, Lecanora muralis