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Cryptodiscus gloeocapsa (Nitschke ex Arnold) Baloch, Gilenstam & Wedin

Fungal Diversity, 38: 61, 2009. Basionym: Bryophagus gloeocapsa Nitschke ex Arnold - Flora, 45: 58, 1862

Synonyms: Gloeolecta bryophaga (Körb. ex Arnold) Vězda; Gloeolecta gloeocapsa (Nitschke ex Arnold) Lettau; Gyalecta gloeocapsa (Nitschke ex Arnold) Zahlbr.

Distribution: N - TAA (Pistocchi & al. 2026).

Description: Thallus crustose, very thin when dry, thicker and gelatinous when wet, membranous or film-like, pale brown to pale green, more or less glossy, poorly delimited. Apothecia 0.2-0.5 mm across, scattered or in small clusters, at first immersed and almost perithecioid, later emergent, deeply concave, opening with a broad pore, with a pale yellow-brown to orange-red, rarely dark brown disc, and a paler or concolorous proper margin. Proper exciple 25-70 µm thick, of thin-walled, radially arranged hyphae, paraplectenchymatous in inner part, without crystals; epithecium poorly differentiated from the hymenium; hymenium colourless (brownish in uppermost part), 50-60 µm high, I+ yellow-brown, K/I+ faintly blue; paraphyses coherent, simple, thread-like, not swollen at apex, immersed in a gelatinous matrix; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, short-stalked, thin-walled, the apex thickened, rounded, K/I+ blue, without any clear apical structures. Ascospores 3-4-septate, not constricted at septa, hyaline, narrowly cylindrical to cylindrical-fusiform, 20-30 x 1.5-2 μm, often tapering at one end, arranged in a fascicle. Pycnidia pyriform, immersed in the thallus. Conidia short-cylindrical. Photobiont chlorococcoid, Gloeocystis-like, the cells globose or elongate, arranged in clusters. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.

Note: Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, in the Alps, it was so far recorded also from Austria and Switzerland (Nimis et al. 2018). In the Alps the species mostly grows on acidic soil of a few years old embankments of secondary dirt forest roads in shaded situations, mostly in the montane to subalpine belt. In other parts of Europe it is also found in other habitats with pioneer character, such as consolidated acidic sand dunes or recently disturbed soil. Co-occurring bryophytes and leafy hepatics are partly or entirely overgrown by the filmy crustose lichen.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Pioneer species

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: extremely rare

Subalpine belt: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very 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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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

INDEX FUNGORUM GBIF DOLICHENS

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm; Owner: CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

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

Herbarium: TSB (18688)
2001/12/27

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[TSB_18688], Oesterreich, Steiermark, Stubalpe, Bez. Voitsberg, Graben des Drei-Goessnitzbaches S Koeflach, Böschung eines Waldweges, 550-600 m. Leg. J. Poelt, 23.09.1990 (Dupl. ex GZU)

Walter Obermayer CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: Lichens of Noricum - http://lichens-of-noricum.uni-graz.at/

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[VZR371], Germania. Bavaria, montes Schwarzwald, Haidmühle, secus viam ad latera merid. montis Dreisesselberg, 1000 m. In fossis viae, ad terram arenosam. Leg. A. Vezda, J. Kocourková & V. Wirth. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 371.

Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[VZR371], Germania. Bavaria, montes Schwarzwald, Haidmühle, secus viam ad latera merid. montis Dreisesselberg, 1000 m. In fossis viae, ad terram arenosam. Leg. A. Vezda, J. Kocourková & V. Wirth. EX A. VEZDA: LICHENES RARIORES EXSICCATI NR. 371.

Source: Vězda A. (1966) Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 1: 154-175 Flechtensystematische Studien III. Die Gattung Ramonia Stiz. und Gloeolecta. Lett.

as Gloeolecta bryophaga