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Arthopyrenia stenospora Körb.

Parerga Lichenol., 5: 390, 1865

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Distribution: N - TAA (NImis & al. 2018).

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic, brownish or not evident, doubtfully lichenized. Perithecia black, somehow glossy, 0.1-0.25 mm across, circular in outline, with a slightly flattened apical part. Involucrellum dimidiate, brown, K-, of a clypeate tissue composed of bark material intermixed with dark brown, thin-walled and smooth hyphae, forming in places a pseudoparenchymatous tissue of isodiametric, c. 3.5 µm wide cells with dark brown walls; exciple colourless throughout; paraphysoids soon gelatinized, c. 2.5 µm thick, poorly evident in mature perithecia. Asci 8-spored, obpyriform, thick-walled and fissitunicate, with a small, pointed internal apical beak, 60-70 x 23-27 µm. Ascospores 1-septate, not or only slightly constricted at septum, the two cells often of slightly different sizethe lower one often slightly constricted without becoming septate, hyaline, narrowly ovoid to almost bacilliform, (15-)18-22(-23) x 2.5-4(-6) μm, with a narrow gelatinous sheath. Pycnidia rare, black. Conidia 1-celled, narrowly ellipsoid or bacilliform, 3-4 x c. 1 μm. Photobiont absent or thallus loosely associated with trentepohlioid algae. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on the smooth bark of deciduous trees, widespread throughout Europe but rarely collected, most records being historical.

Growth form: Fungus

Substrata: bark

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Pioneer species

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

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

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF