Baeomyces placophyllus Ach.
Meth. Lich.: 323, 1803.
Synonyms: Ludovicia placophylla (Ach.) Trevis.
Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Hafellner 2000), Ven (Tretiach 1993), TAA (Nascimbene 2008b, Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb (Ravera & al. 2021b), Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004), VA (Piervittori & al. 2004), Emil (Pistocchi & al. 2026).
Description: Primary thallus crustose-placodioid, well-delimited, glaucous grey-green to brownish, turning bright green when wet, thick, forming up to 12 cm wide rosettes, the central parts subsquamulose, often covered in peltate, light-coloured, fragile, up to 0.6 mm wide schizidia leaving shallow scars when they fall off, the margins with radiating, up to 6 mm broad, flattened, contiguous, lobes which are often raised at tips. Apothecia frequent, biatorine, emarginate, with an ochraceous to reddish brown, flat, oftem narginally reflexed disc, up to 4(-5) mm across, terminal on furrowed, subfruticose, solid, up to 6 mm tall and to 2 mm thick stipes which are corticate and sometimes microsquamulose in lower part. Epithecium yellowish brown, C+ red; hymenium colourless, 70-120(-150) µm high, K/I-; paraphyses 2-2.5 µm thick at mid-level, slender, simple or sparingly branched towards the tips, not anastomosing, the apical cell c. 3 µm wide; hypothecium pale. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, thin-walled, the apex truncated, with a single functional wall layer, with a poorly differentiated, non-amyloid tholus. Ascospores 1(-2)-celled, hyaline, fusiform, 8-14(-16) x (2-)3-4(-5.5) µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow, C-, KC+ orange, P+ orange, UV+ pale yellow; mature apothecia C+ red. Chemistry: thallus with the stictic acid complex, incl. traces of norstictic acid and an unidentified substance; gyrophoric and lecanoric acids in mature apothecia. Note: an arctic-alpine to boreal-montane, probably circumpolar lichen found on sandy-clay soil in open stands (e.g. montane-subalpine grasslands), often in moderately disturbed habitats, sometimes reaching the Alpine belt. Probably restricted to the Alps in Italy.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Pioneer species
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: rare
Subalpine belt: rather rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: extremely rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

Predictive model
Herbarium samples


Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).


Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).


Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).


Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).


Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).


Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ1711], Suecia. Värmland: Dalby, Digerfallet, 230 m. Ad terram
macram. Leg. S. W. Sundell (13407). Ex A. Vezda: Lichenes Selecti
Exsiccati Nr. 1711.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ1711], Suecia. Värmland: Dalby, Digerfallet, 230 m. Ad terram
macram. Leg. S. W. Sundell (13407). Ex A. Vezda: Lichenes Selecti
Exsiccati Nr. 1711.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ2044], Germania. Baden-Baden. Silva nigra, in valle rivi Scwarzenbach,
prope Herrenwies, 700 m. Ad terram macram. Leg. H. Schindler,
19.6.1983. Ex A. Vezda: Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 2044.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ2044], Germania. Baden-Baden. Silva nigra, in valle rivi Scwarzenbach,
prope Herrenwies, 700 m. Ad terram macram. Leg. H. Schindler,
19.6.1983. Ex A. Vezda: Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 2044.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU303],Japan. Honshu. Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa Gorge, Chinchibu-
gun. On rocks, 800 m. Leg. M. Togashi, 29.10.1973, det. H. Kashiwadani.
EX S. KURAKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES
ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 303.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU303],Japan. Honshu. Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa Gorge, Chinchibu-
gun. On rocks, 800 m. Leg. M. Togashi, 29.10.1973, det. H. Kashiwadani.
EX S. KURAKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES
ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 303.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU303],Japan. Honshu. Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa Gorge, Chinchibu-
gun. On rocks, 800 m. Leg. M. Togashi, 29.10.1973, det. H. Kashiwadani.
EX S. KUROKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES
ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 303.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU303],Japan. Honshu. Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa Gorge, Chinchibu-
gun. On rocks, 800 m. Leg. M. Togashi, 29.10.1973, det. H. Kashiwadani.
EX S. KUROKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES
ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 303.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU504], Formosa. Prov. Chiayi: Mt. Tsu-Tson-San, Mt. Ali. On rocks,
2200-2600 m. Leg. S. Kurokawa (no. 474), 4.1.1964, det. S. Kurokawa.
EX S. KUROKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET
CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 504.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU504], Formosa. Prov. Chiayi: Mt. Tsu-Tson-San, Mt. Ali. On rocks,
2200-2600 m. Leg. S. Kurokawa (no. 474), 4.1.1964, det. S. Kurokawa.
EX S. KUROKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET
CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 504.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU603],Japan. Kyushu. Prov. Ohsumi: Hananoego, Yakushima Island.
On soil, 1650 m. Leg. H. Shibuichi (no. 7648), 36.7.1984, det. H.
Kashiwadani. EX S. KURAKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES
RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 603.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU603],Japan. Kyushu. Prov. Ohsumi: Hananoego, Yakushima Island.
On soil, 1650 m. Leg. H. Shibuichi (no. 7648), 36.7.1984, det. H.
Kashiwadani. EX S. KURAKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES
RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 603.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH376], Taiwan. Taitung Co.: en route from Tentzu to Kwansan Yako,
Haituan-gun, On rock, 2850 m. Leg. H. Kashiwadani (no 1991),
1.3.1991, det H. Kashiwadani. EX Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI
EXSICCATI NR. 476.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH376], Taiwan. Taitung Co.: en route from Tentzu to Kwansan Yako,
Haituan-gun, On rock, 2850 m. Leg. H. Kashiwadani (no 1991),
1.3.1991, det H. Kashiwadani. EX Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI
EXSICCATI NR. 476.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH577], Japan.Honshu. Prov.Shinano (Pref. Nagano): near Maru-ike
Pond, Shiga-kogen (36°43' N, 138°28' E). On rock, 150 m.Leg. M.
Togashi & M. Nuno, 13.10.1965, det. Y. Asahina. Ex Y. OHMURA
LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 577.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH577], Japan.Honshu. Prov.Shinano (Pref. Nagano): near Maru-ike
Pond, Shiga-kogen (36°43' N, 138°28' E). On rock, 150 m.Leg. M.
Togashi & M. Nuno, 13.10.1965, det. Y. Asahina. Ex Y. OHMURA
LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 577.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH651], Japan. Honshu, Shinano Prov. (Nagano Pref.) Azusagawa,
Matsumoto-city. On rock. Leg. M. Nuno,12.8.1964, det. Y. Ohmura. EX
Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 651.


Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH651], Japan. Honshu, Shinano Prov. (Nagano Pref.) Azusagawa,
Matsumoto-city. On rock. Leg. M. Nuno,12.8.1964, det. Y. Ohmura. EX
Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 651.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Pioneer species
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: rare
Subalpine belt: rather rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: extremely rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

Predictive model
| Herbarium samples |

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).

Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16639], Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, ca. 2 km südlich von Hofstätten, am Weg zum Annweiler Forsthaus, 49.260193° N, 7.891891° E, 291 m. Leg. et det. Schumm 03.09.2010 (BLAMExkursion).

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ1711], Suecia. Värmland: Dalby, Digerfallet, 230 m. Ad terram macram. Leg. S. W. Sundell (13407). Ex A. Vezda: Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 1711.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ1711], Suecia. Värmland: Dalby, Digerfallet, 230 m. Ad terram macram. Leg. S. W. Sundell (13407). Ex A. Vezda: Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 1711.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ2044], Germania. Baden-Baden. Silva nigra, in valle rivi Scwarzenbach, prope Herrenwies, 700 m. Ad terram macram. Leg. H. Schindler, 19.6.1983. Ex A. Vezda: Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 2044.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[VZ2044], Germania. Baden-Baden. Silva nigra, in valle rivi Scwarzenbach, prope Herrenwies, 700 m. Ad terram macram. Leg. H. Schindler, 19.6.1983. Ex A. Vezda: Lichenes Selecti Exsiccati Nr. 2044.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU303],Japan. Honshu. Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa Gorge, Chinchibu- gun. On rocks, 800 m. Leg. M. Togashi, 29.10.1973, det. H. Kashiwadani. EX S. KURAKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 303.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU303],Japan. Honshu. Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa Gorge, Chinchibu- gun. On rocks, 800 m. Leg. M. Togashi, 29.10.1973, det. H. Kashiwadani. EX S. KURAKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 303.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU303],Japan. Honshu. Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa Gorge, Chinchibu- gun. On rocks, 800 m. Leg. M. Togashi, 29.10.1973, det. H. Kashiwadani. EX S. KUROKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 303.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU303],Japan. Honshu. Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa Gorge, Chinchibu- gun. On rocks, 800 m. Leg. M. Togashi, 29.10.1973, det. H. Kashiwadani. EX S. KUROKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 303.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU504], Formosa. Prov. Chiayi: Mt. Tsu-Tson-San, Mt. Ali. On rocks, 2200-2600 m. Leg. S. Kurokawa (no. 474), 4.1.1964, det. S. Kurokawa. EX S. KUROKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 504.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU504], Formosa. Prov. Chiayi: Mt. Tsu-Tson-San, Mt. Ali. On rocks, 2200-2600 m. Leg. S. Kurokawa (no. 474), 4.1.1964, det. S. Kurokawa. EX S. KUROKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 504.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU603],Japan. Kyushu. Prov. Ohsumi: Hananoego, Yakushima Island. On soil, 1650 m. Leg. H. Shibuichi (no. 7648), 36.7.1984, det. H. Kashiwadani. EX S. KURAKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 603.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[KU603],Japan. Kyushu. Prov. Ohsumi: Hananoego, Yakushima Island. On soil, 1650 m. Leg. H. Shibuichi (no. 7648), 36.7.1984, det. H. Kashiwadani. EX S. KURAKAWA AND H. KASHIWADANI LICHENES RARIORES ET CRITICI EXSICCATI NR. 603.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH376], Taiwan. Taitung Co.: en route from Tentzu to Kwansan Yako, Haituan-gun, On rock, 2850 m. Leg. H. Kashiwadani (no 1991), 1.3.1991, det H. Kashiwadani. EX Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 476.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH376], Taiwan. Taitung Co.: en route from Tentzu to Kwansan Yako, Haituan-gun, On rock, 2850 m. Leg. H. Kashiwadani (no 1991), 1.3.1991, det H. Kashiwadani. EX Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 476.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH577], Japan.Honshu. Prov.Shinano (Pref. Nagano): near Maru-ike Pond, Shiga-kogen (36°43' N, 138°28' E). On rock, 150 m.Leg. M. Togashi & M. Nuno, 13.10.1965, det. Y. Asahina. Ex Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 577.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH577], Japan.Honshu. Prov.Shinano (Pref. Nagano): near Maru-ike Pond, Shiga-kogen (36°43' N, 138°28' E). On rock, 150 m.Leg. M. Togashi & M. Nuno, 13.10.1965, det. Y. Asahina. Ex Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 577.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[OH651], Japan. Honshu, Shinano Prov. (Nagano Pref.) Azusagawa, Matsumoto-city. On rock. Leg. M. Nuno,12.8.1964, det. Y. Ohmura. EX Y. OHMURA LICHENES MINUS COGNITI EXSICCATI NR. 651.

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