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Psorotichia suffugiens (Nyl.) Forssell

Nova Acta R. Soc. Scient. Upsal., Ser. 3, 13, 6: 83, 1885. Basionym: Collemopsis suffugiens Nyl. - Flora, 68: 39, 1885

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Description: Thallus crustose, hardly visible or reduced to a few small granules around the apothecia, black when dry, brown-black when wet. Apothecia thallinocarp, 0.2-0.4 mm across, at first punctiform and urceolate, then with an expanded, concave to flat, brown-black disc and thin but distinct thalline margin. Proper exciple very thin; epithecium orange-brown; hymenium and hypothecium colourless. Asci 16-32-spored, cylindrical-clavate, thin-walled. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 6-12 x 3-6 µm. Photobiont cyanobacterial, chroococcoid, the cells enclosed in yellowish brown gelatinous sheaths. Spot tests: all negative. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on dry, sunny surfaces of calcareous or basic siliceous rocks (e.g. basalt) subject to short periods of water seepage; overall distribution poorly known, with a few scattered records from the Alps and the Mediterranean region, outside Italian territory. To be looked for in Italy. The species will be soon recombined into Lichinella (Schultz, in prep.).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: cyanobacteria, coccaceous (e.g. Gloeocapsa)

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

On otherwise dry surfaces with short periods of water seepage after rain

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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Index Fungorum GBIF