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Lecidea siderolithica Müll. Arg.

Flora, 55: 535, 1872

Synonyms: Lecidea nigrogrisea Nyl.

Distribution:

Description: Thallus crustose, continuous to rimose-areolate, usually thinly episubstratic, c. 0.1 mm thick, grey-brown, pale brown or ochraceous brown. Medulla white, I-. Apothecia lecideine, black, slightly constricted at base, 0.6-0.8(-1.5) mm across, with a black, flat to slightly convex disc, and a thin, sometimes finally excluded proper margin. Proper exciple blackish brown in outer part, almost colourless within; epithecium olive-green to olive-brown; hymenium colourless; paraphyses simple to branched and anastomosing; hypothecium dark brown to almost black. Asci 8-spored, clavate, Lecidea-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 7-12 x 3.5-5 µm. Pycnidia immersed. Conidia cylindrical. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests; thallus K-, C+ red, KC+ red, P-, UV-. Chemistry: gyrophoric acid.

Note: on siliceous rocks at mid-elevations; known from the Western Alps (France), to be looked for in Italy.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Species of metal-rich rocks

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Serge Poumarat - Source: http://mycologie.catalogne.free.fr/lichenPhoto2010/Lecidea_siderolithica_1.jpg

France