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Sarcogyne nimisii K.Knudsen, Kocourk. & Hodková

Herzogia, 36, 1: 65, 2023

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Distribution: N - VG (Knudsen & al. 2023).

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic, poorly evident. Apothecia lecideine, round, dispersed, broadly attached, not replicating by division, 0.2-0.8 mm across, with a brown-red, flat to convex, pruinose disc and a thin, black but mostly pruinose, raised, undulate proper margin. Proper exciple (60-)80-120 μm wide, inspersed with crystals, of radiating hyphae with swollen brown tips, reddish brown in outer part, pale brown to colourless within, the darker rim not clearly delimited from the paler medullary part; epithecium brown; hymenium colourless, 120-130(-140) µm high, the hymenial gel hemiamyloid; paraphyses c. 1 µm thick, coherent, simple to sparingly branched, regularly septate, not capitate; subhymenium indistinct, c. 20 µm high, hemiamyloid; hypothecium merged with medulla, obscure with crystals, the hyphae 1-2 µm thick. Asci >100-spored, cylindrical-clavate, strongly thickened at apex, the apical dome K/I-, the outer coat K/I+ blue, 90-100 x 10-17 µm. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid and 4 x 3 µm or ellipsoid and 3-4 x c. 2 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances

Note: a recently described calcicolous species, hitherto known only from the Trieste coast, which surprisingly clusters together with a group of American species (see Knudsen & al. 2023).

Growth form: Crustose endolithic

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: very rare

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

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (35083)
2002/02/22

P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Herbarium: TSB (35083)
2002/02/22

Kerry Knudsen

TSB 35083