Lecidea inflata Anzi
Comm. Soc. Crittog. Ital. 2, 1: 17, 1864
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Distribution: N - Lomb.
Note: a very poorly known terricolous species with a thick, cartilaginous, rugose-plicate to bullate, yellowish white thallus forming small pillows, large, adnate, confluent, black apothecia which are first flat and thinly marginate, then convex, a brownish epithecium, a pale hypothecium, coherent paraphyses, 8-spored asci, and simple, hyaline, ellipsoid ascospores measuring c. 18.9 × 13 µm; only known from the type collection and from a few localities in the mountains of Central Europe, this taxon deserves further study.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: very rare
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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