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Placopyrenium gorzegnoense (Servít) ined.

provisionally placed here, ICN Art. 36.1b. Basionym: Dermatocarpon gorzegnoense Servít - Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 66: 242, 1953

Synonyms:

Distribution: N - Piem.

Note: a species with a spreading, verrucose-areolate to subsquamulose thallus, the areoles/squamules to 1 mm in diam., subdivided into whitish-pruinose, up to 0.2 mm wide verruculae, with a thick, brown, paraplectenchymatous basal layer; perithecia 1-3 per squamule only slightly projecting, without involucrellum; ascospores oblong to ellipsoid, to c. 20 µm long; on a calcareous rock, only known from the type locality in the Western Alps (Piemonte).

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: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: very rare

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

Herbarium samples

"BM001106139_a" - Dermatocarpon gorzegnoense – possible Type - The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London CC BY 4.0