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Porina sudetica (Körb.) Lettau

Hedwigia, 52: 104, 1912. Basionym: Verrucaria sudetica Körb. - Denkschr. Feier funfz. Best. her. Schles. Gesellsch. Vaterl. Kultur: 236, 1852

Synonyms: Sagedia sudetica (Körb.) Körb.

Distribution:

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, effuse, granulose, encrusting silicicolous mosses. Perithecia 0.3-0.4 mm across, at first red-brown, finally brown-black to black, often remaining brown around the slightly depressed ostiole. Involucrellum dull purple, K+ dark grey to brown; exciple reddish brown; paraphyses mostly simple, thread-like, persistent. Asci 8-spored, thin-walled, with a more or less truncate apex, with no extruded inner layers, I-, K/I-. Ascospores 3-5(-7)-septate, hyaline, fusiform, 25-39 x 5–8 μm. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.

Note: encrusting silicicolus bryophytes (Andreaea) and plant debris in the subalpine and alpine belts; rare in the Central European mountains, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria); to be looked for in the Italian Alps.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Photo uploaded by P. Cannon CC BY-SA NC – Source: http://fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/porina-sudetica detail of ascomata on decaying moss in mine working spoil, VC1 W Cornwall.

Photo uploaded by P. Cannon CC BY-SA NC – Source: http://fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/porina-sudetica

detail of ascomata on decaying moss in mine working spoil, VC1 W Cornwall.