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Buellia arborea Coppins & Tønsberg

Sommerfeltia, 14: 111, 1992.

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Distribution: N - Frl.

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic to thinly episubstratic and areolate, whitish, forming orbicular, up to 4 cm wide patches, sometimes delimited by a very thin, pale prothallus, sorediate. Areoles sparse, discrete or contiguous, becoming more or less convex, usually esorediate. Medulla white, I-. Soralia bursting through the cell-layers of the bark or wood, often delimited by a thin, lacerate rim of bark cells, pale green to bluish green, but frequently darkened and brownish to blackish, orbicular to ellipsoid-elongate, flat to crateriform, up to 0.4 mm across, bearing farinose, up to 30 µm wide soredia which are strongly inspersed with crystals dissolving in K. Apothecia rare, lecideine, black, 0.2-0.5 mm across, initially more or less immersed, then sessile, with a concave to finally flat disc, and a thin, usually persistent proper margin. Proper exciple Dispersa-type, of radially arranged hyphae, the inner part of long-celled, parallel, strongly agglutinated and thick-walled hyphae, the outer part of short-celled, isodiametrical hyphae without intercellular spaces; epithecium olive-brown, N-; hymenium colourless, up to 120 µm high, strongly inspersed with oil droplets; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched, 1.5-2 µm thick at mid-level, the apical cells 4-5 µm wide, with a brown cap; hypothecium deep reddish brown. Asci 8-spored, clavate to cylindrical-clavate, the apical dome K/I+ dark blue with a pale, conical-pointed apical cushion (axial mass), the wall I-, but the thin outer gel I+ blue, Bacidia-type. Ascospores 1(-3)-septate, soon brown, narrowly ellipsoid, usually not constricted at septum, with pointed and often paler ends, sometimes slightly curved, 18-28 x 7.5-12.5 µm, Callispora-type. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P- or P+ yellow, UV-; soralia K- or K+ faintly yellow (squash preparations). Chemistry: atranorin, placodiolic acid.

Note: a usually sterile species with bluish-greenish, round to elongated, and flat to concave soralia reacting K- in squash preparations; usually found on periodically dry wood of logs and old fences in upland areas; certainly more widespread in the Alps, and locally rather common, but often overlooked.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: lignum

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: rather rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Poleotolerance:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

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

Herbarium: TSB (25279)
2002/01/02