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Catillaria mediterranea Hafellner

Herzogia, 6: 293, 1982.

Synonyms: Scutula pleiospora Vouaux

Distribution: C - Tosc (Brackel 2015, 2016), Laz (Brackel 2015), Abr (Brackel 2015), Mol (Nimis & Tretiach 1999, Caporale & al. 2008), Sar (Brackel & Berger 2019). S - Bas (Tretiach & Hafellner 1998, Nimis & Tretiach 1999, van den Boom 2002), Cal (Nimis & Puntillo 2003, Puntillo 2011, Brackel & Puntillo 2016), Si (Nimis & al. 1994, Tretiach & Hafellner 1998, Brackel 2008b, Campisi & al. 2020, Brackel & Puntillo 2023).

Description: Thallus mostly inapparent, the hyphae developing inside the thalli of foliose or fruticose lichens, rarely very thin and continuous, appearing as an olive-brown speck. Apothecia lecideine, dark brown to black (the disc brown when wet), epruinose, round to irregular in outline, 0.1-0.2 mm across, with a flat to slightly convex disc and a thin, smooth, raised proper margin. Proper exciple thick, coherent in K, of branched, radiating hyphae, dark brown in outer part, straw-coloured within, K-, N-; epithecium brown, K-, N-; hymenium colourless, 40-60 µm high, often inspersed with oil droplets in lower part, I+ strongly blue; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched in upper part, 1.5-2 µm thick, the apical cells abruptly swollen, up to 5 µm wide, with a dark brown cap, the pigment located within the cell walls; hypothecium colourless to straw-coloured. Asci 8-16-spored (8-spored and multispored asci usually present in the same apothecium), with a K/I+ blue outer coat and a K/I+ uniformly blue apical dome, Catillaria-type. Ascospores 1-septate, hyaline, ellipsoid to narrowly fusiform, 6-8.5 x 2.5-3.5 µm. Photobiont absent or chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a mainly Mediterranean lichenicolous lichen (with a very reduced thallus) growing on different foliose and fruticose lichens, e.g. Anaptychia ciliaris, Parmelina spp., Ramalina spp., etc. According to Tretiach & Hafellner (1998) the record from Sardinia (Nimis 1993: 205) refers to C. servitii; also the record by Garofalo & al. 2010 from Campania probably also refers to that species (see Brackel 2021).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

paras foliose and fruticose lichens

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: rare

Submediterranean belt: very rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: rare

Humid mediterranean belt: rare

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 26554

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

Herbarium: TSB (26554)
2001/11/23
on the host, Anaptychia ciliaris

Domenico Puntillo - CC BY-SA 4.0

Calabria. Reggio Calabria, Gambarie, Caserma Forestale di Basilicò, m. 1310 leg. Brackel & Puntillo 04.05.2015 (CLU nr. 18107).