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Lendemeriella lucifuga (G. Thor) S.Y. Kondr.

in Kondratyuk & al., Acta Bot. Hung., 62, 1-2: 121, 2020. Basionym: Caloplaca lucifuga G. Thor - Lichenologist, 20: 175, 1988.

Synonyms:

Distribution: N - VG, Piem (TSB 33493), Lig (Brunialti & al. 2001). C - Tosc, Umb (Ravera 2000, Ravera & al. 2006), Laz, Abr, Mol (Herb. Ravera 4803), Sar (Zedda 1995, 2002, 2002b). S - Pugl (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Cal (Puntillo 1995, 1996, Incerti & Nimis 2006).

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, inconspicuous or visible as a thin grey film with scattered small warts. Soralia numerous, 0.15-0.35 mm in diam., breaking up from the warts, pale yellow, yellowish grey to dirty orange-brown (greenish in shade-forms), at first well-delimited, but sometimes confluent, initially flat, then often convex. Soredia granular or farinose 17-24 μm in diam. Apothecia unknown. Photobiont chlorococcoid, the cells 7-14 μm diam., arranged in clusters. Spot tests: thallus K- or K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P-; soralia K+ violet-red or rarely K-(anthraquinones may be absent in green soralia from shaded situations). Chemistry: anthraquinones in the soredia (parietin and fallacinal).

Note: a temperate species found on ancient, more or less isolated deciduous trees, especially oaks or Castanea, often in crevices of rough bark and on faces seldom wetted by rain. It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens under the “Least Concern” category (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark and lignum

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

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

In underhangs rarely wetted by rain

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: very rare

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 CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 33493

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

Herbarium: TSB (33493)
2001/12/09