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Biatora rufidula (Graewe) S. Ekman & Printzen

in Printzen, Bibl. Lichenol., 60: 115, 1995. Basionym: Bilimbia rufidula Graewe in Hellbom - Öfvers. K. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh., 24: 270, 1867.

Synonyms: Bacidia rufidula (Graewe) Zahlbr.; Lecidea rufidula (Graewe) Stizenb.

Distribution: N - TAA (Printzen 1995, Nascimbene & al. 2007b).

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, whitish grey to greenish grey, 40-100 μm thick, continuous to rimose, rarely consisting of flat to slightly convex areoles, forming 1-3 cm wide patches. Cortex 12-30 μm thick colourless; medulla absent. Apothecia biatorine, rounded or irregular in outline, rarely tuberculate, sessile and constricted at base, 0.25-0.4(-0.6) mm across, with a ochre to chestnut-brown, flat to slightly convex, epruinose disc, and a pale beige to orange-brown, persistent or finally excluded proper margin. Proper exciple colourless or orange-brown within, 30-75 μm wide laterally, 40-155 μm wide basally, I+ pale violet, of radiating hyphae with 1-1.5 μm wide cylindrical lumina, the lumina of apical cells to 3 μm wide; epithecium 10-12 μm high, orange-brown, poorly delimited against hymenium; hymenium basally colourless or pale yellowish, gradually becoming pigmented in upper part, often with vertical, pale orange streaks, (35-)45-55(-65) μm high; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched and anastomosing, 0.5-1 μm thick, the apical cells 1-2(-2.5) μm wide, sometimes with visible gelatinous sheaths; hypothecium colourless or pale yellow, 10-50(-95) µm high; subhymenium pale yellow, 20-25(-40) μm high. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with a K/I+ blue apical dome penetrated by a narrow, K/I- apical cushion surrounded by a narrow, deeply K/I+ blue zone, the wall K/I- but surrounded by an I+ red-brown, K/I+ blue outer layer, the ocular chamber relatively small, Biatora-type, 37-52 x 9,5-15 µm. Ascospores (0-)3(-5)-septate, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, (10-)12-19(-21) x (3.5-)5-6(-7) μm. Pycnidia very rare, inconspicuous, immersed, colourless. Conidia 6.5-7.5 x c. 1 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.

Note: a boreal-montane lichen, restricted to Picea abies in the oroboreal belt of the Alps; probably more widespread but perhaps declining.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Solar irradiation:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Einar Timdal - Source: http://www.nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/lav/Photo_Gallery/Biatora/rufidula_G=Norway+Nord-Troendelag+Snaasa_H=TRH-L-4402_C=ET_I=1.jpg