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Ochrolechia bahusiensis H. Magn.

Bot. Notiser: 115, 1927

Synonyms: Ochrolechia subviridis (Høeg) Erichsen f. pulverulenta Erichsen; Ochrolechia subviridis (Høeg) Erichsen var. lignaria (Erichsen) Erichsen

Distribution:

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, usually thin, well-delimited, white-grey, dark grey or pale brownish grey, with small, regular, usually well-separated tubercles of different sizes, often delimited by a thin whitish prothallus, sorediate. Soralia usually well-delimited, later sometimes confluent, rounded to irregular, convex, grey, cream-coloured, yellowish grey, or concolorous with thallus; soredia farinose, sometimes gathered into corticate, isidia-like consoredia. Apothecia rare, lecanorine, up to 2 mm across, rounded to irregular in outline, with a concave to flat, pale to dark brown disc, and a thick, even or flexuose, sometimes sorediate thalline margin. Thalline exciple corticate, with a well-differentiated medulla; proper exciple usually clearly visible also macroscopically, especially in young apothecia, forming a distinct, salmon-coloured excipular ring around the disc; epithecium pale brown, C+ red; hymenium colourless, up to 300 μm high; paraphyses thin, densely branched and anastomosing; hypothecium colourless to yellowish. Asci (4-)8-spored with thick, amyloid walls, Pertusaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, broadly ovoid or rarely subglobose, (25-)30-55 x (12-)15-29 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus (cortex) K-, C+ red, KC+ red, P-; medulla C-, KC-. Chemistry: cortex with gyrophoric acid and 2-3(-4) fatty acids of the murolic acid complex (major), lecanoric acid (minor or traces), rarely atranorin (traces).

Note: an epiphytic species morphologically resembling O. arborea, but with a different secondary chemistry (murolic acid syndrome, gyrophoric acid syndrome), and therefore soralia UV-; mostly on the bark of deciduous trees in various forest types; widespread in Europe, but not consistently distinguished, and distribution therefore incompletely known. 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

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (13365)
2001/12/10

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (13365)
2001/12/10
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