Athallia skii (Khodos., Vondrák & Šoun) Arup, Frödén & Søchting

Athallia skii (Khodos., Vondrák & Šoun) Arup, Frödén & Søchting

Nordic J. Bot., 31, 1: 37, 2013. Basionym: Caloplaca skii Khodos., Vondrák & Šoun - in Vondrák & al., Lichenologist, 44: 83, 2011 (2012)

Synonyms: Fominiella skii (Khodos., Vondrák & Šoun) S.Y. Kondr., Upreti & Hur

Distribution:

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, continuous and film-like, often visible only around apothecia, whitish, light grey or more rarely pale yellow, without a distinct prothallus. Apothecia zeorine to biatorine, dispersed, (0.2-)0.3 (-0.5) mm across, at first immersed then sessile and sometimes weakly constricted at base; with a flat to weakly convex, yellow-orange, epruinose disc, a persistent, yellow (paler than disc) proper margin, a greyish white to yellow-white thalline margin is evident only in young apothecia, but persistent on their lower side. Thalline exciple thin, with a loosely paraplectenchymatous, alveolate cortex; proper exciple (25-)30-45(-50) μm wide, of radiating hyphae; epithecium yellow-orange, finely granular, K+ purple-red; hymenium colourless, (50-)60-75 μm high, inspersed with oil droplets; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched, 1.5-2 μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells swollen, up to 4(-5.5) μm wide; hypothecium colourless, 30-50 μm high. Asci 8-spored, clavate, functionally unitunicate, apically thickened with a broad internal beak, the inner part of apex and external cap I+ blue, Teloschistes-type. Ascospores 2-celled, polarilocular, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, (7.5-)9-13 x (3.5-)4.5-6(-6.5) μm, often > 2 times as long as wide, the equatorial thickening (“septum”) 3.5-6.5 μm, c. 1/3-1.2 of spore length. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests. thallus K- or rarely (pigmented thalli) K+ purple-red, C-, KC-, P-; apothecia K+ purple-red, C-, UV+ orange-red. Chemistry: parietin (major), sometimes traces of emodin, parietinic acid, fallacinal and teloschistin.

Note: A recently-described species growing on (often dead) twigs of coastal shrubs, often on Juniperus on sand dunes. Widespread in southern Europe and also known from Corsica; to be looked for in Italy.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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Predictive model

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0

[B 60 0192174], Romania, Dobruja, Tulcea, Popina Island (Insula Popina) in Razim Lake (Lacul Razim), E coast, corticolous on low shrubs in steppe. 44°58.5' N, 28°58.9' E, 0-20 m. Leg. J. Vondrák & J. Šoun

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_A/Textes_A4/Athallia_skii.htm

France, Sur Juniperus phoenicea - Anse de l'Ile de Fazzio - Corse
oct. 2015

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_A/Textes_A4/Athallia_skii.htm

France, Sur Juniperus phoenicea - Anse de l'Ile de Fazzio - Corse
oct. 2015

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_A/Textes_A4/Athallia_skii.htm

France, Sur Juniperus phoenicea - Anse de l'Ile de Fazzio - Corse
oct. 2015

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_A/Textes_A4/Athallia_skii.htm

France, Sur Juniperus phoenicea - Anse de l'Ile de Fazzio - Corse
oct. 2015

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_A/Textes_A4/Athallia_skii.htm

France, Sur Juniperus phoenicea - Anse de l'Ile de Fazzio - Corse
oct. 2015

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