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Gyalecta ophiospora (Lettau) Baloch & Lücking

in Baloch & al., Lichenologist, 45: 726, 2013. Basionym: Pachyphiale ophiospora Lettau - Feddes Repert., Beih. 69, 3: 222, 1937

Synonyms:

Distribution: N - Emil (Ravera & al. 2023b).

Description: Thallus crustose, inconspicuous, thin, pale grey to whitish. Apothecia 0.2-0.4 mm across, gelatinous and translucent when wet, with a concave to flat, orange disc and a usually darker, orange-brown, raised, smooth proper margin. Proper exciple well-developed, of narrow, thin, compacted hyphae; epithecium orange-brown; hymenium colourless; paraphyses simple, septate; hypothecium colourless. Asci 16-48-spored, thin-walled, lacking an apical apparatus or tholus, K/I+ blue. Ascospores transversely 7(-9)-septate, hyaline, acicular, strongly curved and spirally arranged in the asci, 35-60 x 2-3 µm. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a rare species found on bark of broad-leaved trees in montane forests, widespread in temperate Europe, including the Alps outside Italian territory, and also reported from the Mountains of Greece and from C-Asia.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: extremely rare

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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php

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Italy, Emilia-Romagna, M. Cimone, Appennino Modenese, su Fagus

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Italy, Emilia-Romagna, M. Cimone, Appennino Modenese, su Fagus

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Italy, Emilia-Romagna, M. Cimone, Appennino Modenese, su Fagus

Juri Nascimbene CC BY 4.0

Italy, Emilia-Romagna, M. Cimone, Appennino Modenese, su Fagus

Juri Nascimbene CC BY 4.0

Italy, Emilia-Romagna, M. Cimone, Appennino Modenese, su Fagus

Juri Nascimbene CC BY 4.0

Italy, Emilia-Romagna, M. Cimone, Appennino Modenese, su Fagus