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Polyblastia peminosa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Cat. Lich. Univ., 1: 152, 1921.. Basionym: Verrucaria peminosa Nyl. - Not. Sällsk. Fauna Fl. Fenn. Förh., Ny Ser., 8: 170, 1866.

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Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, c. 0.2 mm thick, rimose-areolate, reddish brown to reddish grey, turning green when wet. Perithecia black, 0.2-0.3 mm across (in section), 1-2 per areole, half-immersed in the thallus, projecting with the flattened upper part. Involucrellum well-developed, often reaching the base of the perithecium; exciple almost colourless to pale brown; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid, I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, clavate, K/I–, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of an endotunica to form a delicate rostrum. Ascospores with highly variable septation (partly simple, partly with 2-5 transverse septa, and partly with an incomplete longitudinal septum), hyaline, ellipsoid, 22-32 x 10-16 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on periodically inundated siliceous rocks in the European mountains, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria); to be looked for in the Italian Alps. According to Savić & al. (2008), the species belongs to the Thelidium-clade, not to Polyblastia s.str.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Periodically submerged (e.g. in creeks)

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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University - Lichens (PH) - Collector: H. Lojka Number: s.n. Verbatim Date: s.d. Locality: Romania, in litore lacus "Zenoga" (alp. Retyezat), comit. Hunyad in Transsylvania [on the shore of Lake "Zenoga" (Lacul Zanoaga) (alp. Retyezat), com. Hunyad in Transylvania] 45.34617 22.822433 +-229m. WGS84 Georeference Remarks: Error radius includes all of Lacul Zanoaga and the surrounding shoreline. Substrate: supra lapides submersos [on submerged rocks] Notes: Herbarium of John W. Eckfeldt (1851-1933), Presented in 1898 Exsiccati series: Lichenotheca regni Hungarici exsiccati #107 - CC BY-NC 3.0 - Source: Consortium of Lichen Herbaria (2023) http//:lichenportal.org/portal/index.php. Accessed on December 18.