Catapyrenium daedaleum (Kremp.) Stein
in Cohn, Krypt.- Fl. von Schlesien, 2, 2: 312, 1879. Basionym: Endocarpon daedaleum Kremp. - Flora, 38: 66, 1855.
Synonyms: Dermatocarpon daedaleum (Kremp.) Th. Fr.; Endopyrenium daedaleum (Kremp.) Körb.; Placidiopsis daedalea (Kremp.) Creveld
Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Hafellner 2000), Ven (Nimis 1994), TAA, Lomb, Piem (TSB 33717), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999). C - Tosc (Benesperi 2007), Abr (Nimis & Tretiach 1999, Di Nuzzo & al. 2021, Gheza & al. 2021, Vallese & al. 2022), Mol (Nimis & Tretiach 2004, Caporale & al. 2008, Brackel 2020), Sar. S - Camp (Nimis & Tretiach 2004), Cal (Puntillo 1996), Si.
Description: Thallus squamulose to subcrustose, brownish to greenish grey-brown, often faintly pruinose, never darker at margin, 0.16-0.36 mm thick. Squamules 1-4 mm broad, flattened, smooth, contiguous, not imbricate, usually forming a rosette-like thallus reaching 9 cm in diam., developing on a black hypothallus; marginal squamules often elongated, rounded and often somewhat concave at tips, epruinose; edge of squamules crenulate, concolorous with upper surface. Lower surface dark, attached by 3-4(-4.5) µm thick, dark rhizohyphae. Upper cortex thin, paraplectenchymatous, poorly delimited from the algal layer; medulla loose, of a mixture of elongated and spherical hyphae; lower cortex absent, the medulla becoming darker in lower part. Perithecia laminal, pyriform, immersed, not flattened, 0.2-0.3 mm across, without involucrellum. Exciple of tangentially arranged, elongated cells, colourless to brownish, especially near the ostiole; hamathecium of mostly simple periphyses; interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, clavate, thin-walled, not or only slightly thickened at apex, without ocular chamber, the wall I-, 75-85 x 17-20 µm. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, clavate, thin-walled, (15-)17-22(-24) x (5-)6-8(-9) µm, biseriately arranged in the asci. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances. Note: a boreal-montane to arctic-alpine, circumpolar species found on plant debris, mosses and bare, humus-rich soil on calciferous ground near or above treeline; perhaps less common than C. cinereum in the mountains of Southern Italy.
Growth form: Squamulose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: rather common
Subalpine belt: common
Oromediterranean belt: very rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
Herbarium samples
P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 34547
P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (26468)
2001/12/07
P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 34547
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Growth form: Squamulose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: rather common
Subalpine belt: common
Oromediterranean belt: very rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
| Herbarium samples |
Index Fungorum
GBIF
P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
TSB 34547
P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (26468)
2001/12/07
P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 34547
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Catapyrenium_daedaleum.htm
France, Mont Cenis - Savoie
16/8/2013
