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Arthonia xanthoparmeliarum Etayo

in Etayo & Sancho, Bibl. Lichenol., 98: 49, 2008.

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Distribution: S - Si (Brackel & Puntillo 2023).

Description: Thallus inapparent, not lichenized, the hyphae developing inside the thallus and soralia of Xanthoparmelia-species, causing 0.7-1.5 mm wide necrotic patches delimited by a blackish line. Apothecia arthonioid, immersed in the thallus and soralia of the host, more or less round, 1.5-3 mm across, with a black, convex disc, without a distinct proper margin. Proper exciple poorly developed, not evident; epithecium brown, c. 10 µm high; hymenium colourless to pale brown, 35-40 µm high, I+ red, K/I+ blue; paraphysoids branched, the apical cells enlarged, to 3 µm wide; hypothecium pale brown, c. 50 µm high. Asci 8-spored, broadly clavate to subglobose, semi-fissitunicate, with a large, non-amyloid apical dome, and a distinct ocular chamber, Arthonia-type. Ascospores 1-septate, hyaline, claviform, with more or less equal cells or sometimes with the lower cell narrower, 10-14.5 x 4-5 µm, with a hyaline, amyloid perispore. Photobiont absent. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a rarely collected species, known from both Americas and Luxembourg; there is an unpublished record from Italy (Sicily, herb. Brackel).

Growth form: Lichenicolous fungus

Substrata: rocks

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

paras Xanthoparmelia-species

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: extremely rare

Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare

Dry mediterranean belt: extremely rare

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

University of California, Riverside Lichens (in transfer to SBBG) (UCR(temp):In transfer) - Determiner: Jana Kocourková (2007) Collector: Jana Kocourková Number: 909669 Date: 2007-07-23 Additional Collectors: Kerry Knudsen Locality: United States, California, Riverside, San Jacinto Mountains, near Sugarloaf Mountain 33.58389 -116.43694 Habitat: On crumbling granite boulder. On Xanthoparmelia mexicana. Substrate: Pinyon pines, Yucca sp. - CC BY-NC 3.0 - Source: Consortium of Lichen Herbaria (2023) http//:lichenportal.org/portal/index.php. Accessed on December 15.