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Agonimia bryophilopsis (Vain.) Hafellner

in Nimis & al., MycoKeys, 31: 10, 2018.. Basionym: Polyblastia bryophilopsis Vain. - Acta Soc. Fauna Flora Fenn., 49, 2: 104, 1921.

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Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, whitish-grey, verruculose, subgelatinous when wet. Perithecia black, 0.3-0.4 mm across, subglobose, only basally immersed, mostly superficial. Exciple distinctly 2-layered, the outer layer dark brown, the inner layer pale brown to colourless; involucrellum absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent. Asci 8-spored, clavate, thin-walled, fissitunicate with a very thin exoascus, surrounded by a hemiamyloid gel. Ascospores strongly muriform, with 35–55 cells in optical view, hyaline, ellipsoid, (28-)30-60(-75) x 15-25 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a poorly known species overgrowing mosses and plant debris on calcareous soil near or above treeline; apparently rare or not recognised, with several records in the Eastern Alps (Austria); to be looked for in the Italian Alps.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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Index Fungorum GBIF