ITALIC 8.0

Verrucula polycarparia Nav.-Ros. & Cl. Roux

in Navarro-Rosinés & al., Bull. Soc. linn. Provence, 58: 163, 2007.

Synonyms:

Distribution: N - VG (vidi!).

Description: Thallus crustose, areolate, forming 2-7 mm wide patches on the thalli of Flavoplaca polycarpa. Areoles small, (0.2-)0.3-0.6(-0.8) mm wide, 0.1-0.2 mm thick, irregularly polygonal to rounded, flat to convex, grey to grey brown, usually darker at margins, not or only weakly pruinose. Cortex 8-15 μm thick, of 1-2 layers of pale brown cells, often covered by an epinecral layer; medulla white, with many large crystals, I-. Perithecia black, 0.1-0.2 mm across, globose, immersed. Involucrellum absent; exciple paraplectenchymatous, colourless except around the ostiole; hymenium colourless, I+ reddish; hamathecium of periphyses along the ostiolar channel, pseudoparaphyses in upper part of the perithecium, and paraphyses disappearing early. Asci 8-spored, clavate, bitunicate, with a thin tholus reacting I-, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, 12-18 x 4-6(-7.5) μm, 2.1-3.4 times as long as wide. Pycnidia unknown. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a lichenicolous lichen growing on the thalli of Flavoplaca polycarpa; recently-described and probably more widespread in Italy.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

paras Flavoplaca polycarpa

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: extremely rare

Submediterranean belt: very rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: very rare

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

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

Index Fungorum GBIF

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Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trieste, Trieste Karst, Rocca di Monrupino

Andrea Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Triedte

Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trieste, Trieste Karst, Rocca di Monrupino
20/02/2017

Andrea Moro; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Triedte

Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trieste, Trieste Karst, Rocca di Monrupino
20/02/2017