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Verrucaria caesiella Servít

Stud. Bot. Cech., 9: 76, 1948.

Synonyms: Amphoridium caesiellum (Servít) Servít; Verrucaria calciseda f. caesia Anzi

Distribution: N - Lomb (Gueidan & Roux 2007).

Description: Thallus crustose, partly endosubstratic, partly thinly episubstratic, grey-white to bluish white, continuous to faintly rimose-areolate near the perithecia, forming a crust which can be easily removed from the substrate. Upper cortex poorly differentiated, 25-40 μm thick; algal layer discontinuous, the algal cells arranged in vertical columns; medulla dense, filled with crystals, without oil cells (macrosphaeroids). Perithecia black, 0.25-0.3 mm high, 0.15-0.25 mm across, irregularly distributed and patchily crowded, immersed in the thallus, the apical part flattened. Involucrellum absent; exciple dark brown in upper part, pale to dark brown in lower part; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, paraphyses dissolving early; periphyses abundant, branched and anastomosing, 30-65 x 2.54 μm; hymenial gel hemiamyloid, I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, two-layered, fissitunicate, with a thin tholus reacting I-, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid 18-22(-24.5) x (8-)9-11(-12.5) μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a calcicolous species, easily confused with Bagliettoa calciseda, differing in the smaller, densely arranged perithecia (to 0.3 mm in diam.), and the slightly smaller ascospores; rarely collected, and perhaps more widespread in the Alps. For a detailed description see Gueidan & Roux (2007).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: extremely rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: very rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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