ITALIC 8.0

Lecidella subviridis Tønsberg

Sommerfeltia, 14: 192, 1992

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Description: Thallus crustose, endo- to episubstratic, forming regular or irregular patches up to a few cm in diam, continuous to areolate, sometimes delimited by a dark prothallus, sorediate. Areoles (when present) grey to grey-green, sometimes with a brownish tinge, flat to convex, more or less rounded, up to 0.3 mm across. Soralia at first punctiform and discrete, flat to slightly convex, up to 0.2 mm across, later more or less confluent, with green to yellowish green or brownish green, 20-30 μm thick, farinose soredia which sometimes coalesce into up to 60 μm thick consoredia. Apothecia rare, lecideine, pale to dark brown, sessile, up to 0.5 mm across, sessile, with a flat disc and a thin proper margin. Proper exciple brown in outermost and uppermost parts, with a faint green tinge in thin sections, otherwise colourless, up to 40 μm wide, with crystals dissolving in K; epithecium brown, with crystals dissolving in K; hymenium colourless or with pale brown vertical streaks, 90-100 μm high, K/I+ pale blue; paraphyses easily made free in K, simple or sparingly branched, 1.5-2 μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells 3-3.5 μm wide; hypothecium colourless to very pale brown, 30-60 μm high, partly K/1+ blue. Asci (6-)8-spored, clavate, with an intensely K/I+ blue tholus penetrated by a faintly amyloid, broadly cylindrical axial mass, and a poorly developed ocular chamber, the wall K/I-, surrounded by a K/I+ blue outer layer, approaching the Lecanora-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid, 15-21 x 7.5-9 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow, C+ orange, KC+ orange, P+ yellow. Chemistry: atranorin and thiophanic acid (major), arthothelin, Expallens-unknown.

Note: on acid-barked trees (conifers, oaks, etc.), with optimum in the montane belt. Known from the Alps outside the Italian territory, but often overlooked, being mostly sterile; to be looked for in Italy.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Einar Timdal - Source: http://www.nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/lav/Photo_Gallery/Lecidella/subviridis_G=Norway+Hordaland+Bergen_H=BG-L-22104_C=ET_I=1.jpg