Bunodophoron melanocarpum (Sw.) Wedin

Mycotaxon, 55: 383, 1995. Basionym: Lichen melanocarpus Sw. - Nov. Gen. Sp. Plant.: 147, 1788.
Synonyms: Sphaerophorus compressus Ach.; Sphaerophorus melanocarpus (Sw.) DC.
Distribution: N - Lomb (Puntillo & Puntillo 2009), Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004, Morisi 2005, Puntillo & Puntillo 2009). C - Tosc (Puntillo & Puntillo 2009).
Description: Thallus fruticose, shrubby-coralloid, 3-5 cm high, often forming extensive mats; branches highly divided in upper part, markedly flattened, especially towards the base, ending with small, subterete, palmate branchlets, pale greenish to greenish grey, sometimes partly pinkish brown, the surface smooth or transversally cracked in old branches. Cortex of thick-walled, gelatinized, fused hyphae covered by a thin epicortex; medulla white, of longitudinally arranged, thick-walled hyphae, I-. Apothecia rare, developing on the underside of larger, terminal, fertile branches, 1.5-3.5 mm across, globose, with a black mazaedium, the thalline exciple soon excluded. Asci cylindrical, with uniseriately arranged spores, disintegrating before the spores are mature. Ascospores subglobose, at first hyaline, then pale to dark grey, (5.5)6-8(-9) µm in diam. Pycnidia terminal or on the lower side of terminal branches, the conidiophores branched, with terminal and intercalary conidiogenous cells. Conidia 1-celled, hyaline, bacilliform, 3-8 µm long. Photobiont: chlorococcoid. Spot tests: medulla K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P+ orange, UV+ blue-white, I-. Chemistry: sphaerophorin and stictic acid complex, the latter most abundant in the apothecia.
Note: a rare and declining humid subtropical to mild-temperate species found on mossy bark and rocks in very moist forests. The species was described from Jamaica, European specimens might belong to a different taxon.
Growth form: Fruticose

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

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Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: extremely rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model
Index Fungorum GBIF

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France, Chaos de Saint-Herbot


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France, Chaos de Saint-Herbot


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=615&lang=en
France, Chaos de Saint-Herbot


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France, Chaos de Saint-Herbot



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France, Pyrenees


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