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Bellemerea alpina (Sommerf.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux

Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest, n. sér. 15: 129, 1984. Basionym: Lecanora alpina Sommerf. - Suppl. Flor. Lappon.: 91, 1826.

Synonyms: Aspicilia alpina (Sommerf.) Arnold; Aspicilia cinereorufescens sensu Körb. non (Ach.) A. Massal.; Aspicilia cinereorufescens var. macrocarpa Anzi; Lecanora alpina var. sulphurata Th. Fr.

Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Hafellner 2000, Ivanova & Hafellner 2002), Ven (Ravera & al. 2024b), TAA (Caniglia & al. 2002, Nascimbene 2003, Lang 2009, Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem (Morisi & Sereno 1995, Isocrono & al. 2004, Isocrono & Piervittori 2008, Favero-Longo & al. 2015), VA (Piervittori & al. 2004, Isocrono & al. 2008, Favero-Longo & Piervittori 2009). C - Tosc (Ravera & al. 2024a).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rimose-areolate, rather thick, white to lead-grey or rarely pale brown, forming 1-5 cm wide, more or less orbicular patches or mosaics, sometimes delimited by a black prothallus. Areoles flat to convex, (0.2-)0.5-2(-3) mm wide, contiguous or rarely dispersed, usualy richly fertile, rarely sterile and with blue-grey marginal soralia. Cortex 10-30 µm thick, brownish in upper part, with a thin epinecral layer; medulla white, I+ blue. Apothecia aspicilioid, 0.2-1.5 mm across, immersed, 1-2(-4) per areole, round to weakly angular, with a concave to slightly convex, brown-red (when wet) or brown-black (when dry) disc, and a thin thalline margin. Proper exciple poorly developed, colourless, I+ blue; epithecium reddish brown to olive-brown, N-; hymenium colourless, 60-110 µm high, I+ blue; paraphyses branched and anastomosing in upper part, 2-2.5(-3) µm thick, the apical cells up to 4 µm wide, usually with a thin, dark brown cap; hypothecium colourless, 30-60 µm high, pale I+ blue, subtended by a discontinuous algal layer. Asci 8-spored, clavate, approaching the Porpidia-type, with a less distinct tube structure. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid or slightly fusiform, 8-15(-23) x 6-8(-13) µm, the inner wall I+ blue, with a thin halonate epispore, often of different sizes and shapes within the same ascus. Pycnidia dark, immersed. Conidia bacilliform, 4-6 x 1-1.5 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow rapidly turning red (needle-like crystals), C-, KC-, P+ golden yellow. Chemistry: norstictic acid.

Note: a mainly arctic-alpine, circumpolar lichen of hard, acid siliceous rocks wetted by rain near or above treeline; almost certainly restricted to the Alps in Italy.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rather common

Subalpine belt: rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/

Courtesy: Anita Stridvall

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/

Courtesy: Anita Stridvall

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/

Courtesy: Anita Stridvall

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (9456)
2001/11/22
wet thallus, apothecial disk reddish brown

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/

Courtesy: Anita Stridvall

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 38539

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 38593

Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/

Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_B/Bellemerea_alpina.htm

France, Haute-Savoie 2010

Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_B/Bellemerea_alpina.htm

France, Haute-Savoie 2010

Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_B/Bellemerea_alpina.htm

France, Haute-Savoie 2010

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder

Central Europe; Austria: Alps.