Dirina cretacea (Zahlbr.) Tehler

Opera Bot., 69: 44, 1983. Basionym: Chiodecton cretaceum Zahlbr. - Österr. bot. Z., 69: 245, 1899.
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Distribution: S - Pugl (Nimis & Tretiach 1999, Tehler & al. 2013).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, 0.3-1 mm thick, smooth to slightly rugose-verruculose, white-grey, pruinose. Cortex 40-60 µm thick, of anticlinally arranged, colourless hyphae immersed in a pale yellow-brown gelatinous matrix; medulla chalk-like throughout. Apothecia lecanorine, stromatoid-pluricarpocentral, numerous, sessile, circular in outline, not constricted at base, 3-8 mm across, with a black but usually white-grey-pruinose disc and an entire thalline margin. Proper exciple inconspicuous; epithecium brownish; hymenium colourless; paraphysoids unbranched or sparsely branched, 1-2 µm thick, the apices 1-3 µm wide; hypothecium black. Asci 8-spored, clavate, bitunicate, the apex thickened with a small internal K/I+ blue ring. Ascospores 3-septate, hyaline, fusiform, 19-23 x 5-6 µm. Pycnidia black, immersed or slightly projecting. Conidia thread-like, sickle-shaped. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: thallus surface K-, C+ red, KC+ red, P-; medulla and apothecial disc C-. Chemistry: erythrin, lecanoric acid (the latter sometimes absent).
Note: most common along the coasts of Dalmatia and the eastern Mediterranean region, locally abundant along the coast of Puglia. The record from Venezia Giulia (Nimis 1993: 285) is wrong, and refers to D. massiliensis f. aponina.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Taxon bound to maritime-coastal situations

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Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: rather common

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples
Index Fungorum GBIF


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 22580


Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
On limestone. SE-Europe; N-Cyprus; E of Girne; Beşparmak Mountains; SE of Kaplica; Kantara Castle


Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
On limestone. SE-Europe; N-Cyprus; E of Girne; Beşparmak Mountains; SE of Kaplica; Kantara Castle