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Buellia henricii B. de Lesd.

Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., 79: 687, 1932

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Distribution: N - VA.

Description: Thallus crustose, very thinly episubstratic, whitish grey, continuous, forming 2-3 cm wide patches delimited by a black prothallus. Apothecia lecideine, numerous, black, c. 0.2 mm across, at first immersed in the thallus, then sessile, with an initially concave, then persistently flat disc and a thin proper margin. Epithecium brown; hymenium colourless, amyloid; paraphyses coherent; hypothecium pale brown. Asci 8-spored, clavate. Ascospores 1-septate, not constricted at septum, brown, 18-20 x 12-13(-15) µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: Thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: unknown, probably without lichen substances.

Note: a very poorly known silicicolous species, only known from the type collection from Valle d’Aosta at 1500 m.

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: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF