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Cetraria delisei (Schaer.) Nyl.

in Fries, K. svenska Vetensk-Akad. Handl., n.f. 7, 2: 11, 1867. Basionym: Cetraria islandica var. delisei Schaer. - Enum. Crit. Lich. Europ.: 114, 1850

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Description: Thallus fruticose, dichotomously branched into strap-shaped laciniae, often forming dense, up to 5-8 cm tall, loosely attached tufts. Laciniae erect, flattened, dorsiventral, canaliculate, 2-8 mm wide in central parts, 0.5-1 mm wide in apical parts, with pointed tips, the margins with scattered, up to 0.5 mm long, spinulose projections. Upper surface brown to dark brown in apical parts, slightly glossy, the basal parts yellowish; lower surface longitudinally ridged, usually paler than upper surface, with distinct whitish pseudocyphellae. Cortex 2-layered, with an external layer of brownish, thick-walled, paraplectenchymatous cells, and an inner layer of periclinally arranged hyphae; medulla white. Apothecia very rare, lecanorine, submarginal on expanded lobes. Asci 8-spored, broadly clavate, Lecanora-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 6-8.5 x 2-2.5 μm. Pycnidia blackish brown, immersed in the spinulose projections. Conidia bottle-shaped, (4-)7-9 x 0.5-1.5 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex K-, C-, KC-, P-; medulla and pseudocyphellae K-, C+ pink, KC+ pink, P-. Chemistry: medulla with gyrophoric and hiascic acids.

Note: an arctic-alpine species of acid soil in rather humid situations; very rare in the Alps, but known from several stations in Austria, some of which are not very far from the Italian border. To be looked for in Italy

Growth form: Fruticose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Einar Timdal - Source: http://www.nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/lav/Photo_Gallery/Cetrariella/delisei_G=Norway+Troms+Nordreisa_D=20030812_O=Timdal_C=ET_I=2.jpg

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

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P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 44106