ITALIC 8.0

Lecidea italica B. de Lesd.

Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., 70: 280, 1922

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Distribution: N - VA.

Note: a very poorly known species with a white, thin thallus of scattered to contiguous, angular areoles reacting K-, on a black hypothallus, a I+ blue medulla, numerous, black, sometimes thinly pruinose, sessile apothecia (2-2.5 mm in diam.), the disc urceolate to concave, the margin prominent and wavy, an olivaceous epithecium reacting K-, a strongly amyloid hymenium of coherent paraphyses, a colourless hypothecium, 8-spored asci, and ellipsoid to oblong, hyaline, simple ascospores measuring 12-17 × 6-7(-8) μm; only known from the type collection in Valpelline, at 2,900 m.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very rare

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

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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Aridity:

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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