Verrucaria litorea (Hepp) Zschacke
Hedwigia, 67: 55, 1927.. Basionym: Verrucaria submersa var. litorea Hepp - Flecht. Europ.: no. 438, 1857.
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Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, brown. Perithecia black. Involucrellum covering 1/3 to half of the perithecium; hamathecium of periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid, I+ red (I+ blue at very low concentrations of I), K/I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, clavate, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of an endotunica to form a delicate rostrum, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 20-30 x 10-15 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.Note: a poorly known species growing on periodically inundated lignum, reported from Switzerland and southern Sweden. To be looked for in Italy.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: lignum
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Poorly known taxon in need of further study
Predictive model
Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley, Dawson Falls Date: 2012-04-08 On bark of Pseudotsuga menziesii in waterfall sprayzone by river shore
Curtis Randall Björk CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley, Dawson Falls
2012-04-08
CC0-1.0 - Natural History Museum (2014). Specimens (from Collection specimens) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb
CC0-1.0 - Natural History Museum (2014). Specimens (from Collection specimens) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb
CC0-1.0 - Natural History Museum (2014). Specimens (from Collection specimens) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: lignum
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Poorly known taxon in need of further study
Predictive model
Curtis Randall Björk – CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley, Dawson Falls Date: 2012-04-08 On bark of Pseudotsuga menziesii in waterfall sprayzone by river shore
Curtis Randall Björk CC BY-SA 4.0
British Columbia, Clearwater Valley, Dawson Falls
2012-04-08
CC0-1.0 - Natural History Museum (2014). Specimens (from Collection specimens) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb
CC0-1.0 - Natural History Museum (2014). Specimens (from Collection specimens) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb
