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Involucropyrenium terrigenum (Zschacke) Breuss

Ann. naturh. Mus. Wien, Ser. B, Bot. Zool., 98, suppl.: 38, 1996. Basionym: Verrucaria terrigena Zschacke - Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl., 2nd ed., 9.1, 1: 260. 1933

Synonyms: Catapyrenium terrigenum (Zschacke) Breuss; Dermatocarpon anzianum var. terrigenum (Zschacke) Servít; Dermatocarpon terrigenum (Zschacke) Lettau

Distribution:

Description: Thallus squamulose to subcrustose and verrucose-areolate, ash-grey, epruinose, c. 0.1 mm thick, sometimes delimited by a pale prothallus. Squamules closely adpressed, 0.4-0.6 mm broad, rounded to crenate, flattened to slightly convex, smooth, contiguous, mostly forming a subcrustose thallus over a black hypothallus; lower surface attached by c. 4 µm thick, pale rhizohyphae. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, of small isodiametrical cells, rather thin, poorly differentiated from the algal layer, which occupies most of the thallus thickness (hence medulla poorly developed); lower cortex absent. Perithecia black, 0.2-0.3 mm across, developing from the hypothallus and located among the squamules, globose, projecting. Involucrellum extending all around the perithecium, c. 40 µm thick; exciple dark throughout, of tangentially arranged, elongated cells, c. 20 µm thick; hamathecium of periphyses measuring c. 25 x 2.5 µm, interascal filaments absent. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with biseriately arranged spores, the wall I-, 55-60 x 13-16 um. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, thin-walled, 10-12 x 7-8.5 µm. Pycnidia unknown. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on acidic soil near and above treeline; very rare and so far only reported from two localities in the Alps (Austria); to be looked for in the Italian Alps.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

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