ITALIC 8.0

Buellia subsquamosa J. Steiner

Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 57: 360, 1907.

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Distribution: N - TAA. C - Sar (Scheidegger 1993).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rimose to verrucose, up to more than 1 mm thick, whitish; medulla white, slightly amyloid, I+ blue-violet. Apothecia black, lecideine, 0.5-0.8 mm across, broadly sessile, with a flat disc and a thick, persistent proper margin. Proper exciple thin, Aethalea-type, the inner hyphae hyaline, prosoplectenchymatous, the outer hyphae parallel and usually strongly brown-pigmented, N-; epithecium olive to brown; hymenium colourless, without oil droplets, 65-85 µm high; hypothecium dark 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-septate, dark brown, oblong, constricted at septum, 13-16 x 6.5-5.8 µm, Buellia-type, with a microrugulate to rugulate ornamentation. Pycnidia flask-shaped, black, immersed in thallus. Conidia bacilliform, 5-7.5 µm long. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P- or P+ faintly yellow; medulla K-, P+ red. Chemistry: cortex with atranorin, medulla with psoromic acid.

Note: a rarely collected lichen of porous siliceous rocks rich in minerals, both in the Mediterranean area and in dry-continental Alpine valleys, where it exceptionally reaches the subalpine belt.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: extremely rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: extremely rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare

Dry mediterranean belt: extremely rare

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Poleotolerance:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF