ITALIC 8.0

Porina calciseda (Bagl. & Carestia) Lettau

Hedwigia, 52: 105, 1912. Basionym: Sagedia calciseda Bagl. & Carestia - Comm. Soc. Critt. Ital., 2, 2: 328 1865

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Distribution: N - Piem.

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rather thick, chalky white to dirty white, continuous to finely rimose. Perithecia black, immersed in the thallus, with a flattened ostiolar region, Paraphyses sparse, thread-like. Asci 8-spored, lanceolate. Ascospores 3-5-septate, hyaline, elongate-fusiform, straight to slightly curved, 29-36 x c. 4 µm. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.

Note: a long-forgotten species, only known from the type collection, on limestone, which would be worthy of further study.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Aridity:

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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Baglietto & Carestia, Anacrisi dei Licheni della Valsesia. Comm. Soc. Critt. Ital., 2, 1879, tav. IV, nr. 66