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Amandinea cacuminum (Th. Fr.) H. Mayrhofer & Sheard

Mycotaxon, 82: 438, 2002. Basionym: Rinodina sophodes (Ach.) A. Massal. f. cacuminum Th. Fr. - Lich. Scand., 1: 201, 1871

Synonyms: Rinodina cacuminum (Th. Fr.) Malme non (A. Massal.) Anzi

Distribution:

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, of convex irregular warts, dull medium to dark brown, usually poorly visible, the warts being almost all occupied by an apothecium. Apothecia lecanorine or cryptolecanorine, black, developing on the thalline warts, 0.3-0.6 mm across, usually crowded, constricted at base to broadly attached, with a flat disc and a thin, entire, flexuose and persistent thalline margin which is rarely undeveloped, exposing the proper margin. Proper exciple thin, hyaline or brown in outer part, more or less of the aethalea-type; epithecium dark brown; hymenium colourless, 60-80 μm high, paraphyses 2-2.5 μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells 5-6 μm wide, heavily pigmented; hypothecium colourless to dark brown in old apothecia, up to 80 μm high. Asci 8-spored, clavate, Bacidia-type. Ascospores 1-celled, brown, subcylindrical, straight or slightly curved, (10-)12-15(-17) x 6-8.3 μm, Buellia-type, thin-walled throughout, the septum prominent. Pycnidia rare, black. Conidia thread-like, 15-20 μm long. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on large siliceous boulders frequently visited by birds; described from Scandinavia, and also reported from the Eastern Alps (Austria); to be looked for in the Italian Alps.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

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

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/

Courtesy: Anita Stridvall

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/

Courtesy: Anita Stridvall