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Aspicilia proluta (Nyl.) Hue

Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 5 sér., 2, 1: 101, 1912 (1910).. Basionym: Lecanora caesiocinerea f. proluta Nyl. - Lich. Pyren. Orient. Obs. Nov.: 8, 1891.

Synonyms: Aspicilia submersa (Lamy) Hue; Circinaria proluta (Nyl.); Lecanora proluta (Nyl.) Zahlbr.; Lecanora subdepressa var. submersa Lamy; Lecanora submersa (Lamy) Zahlbr.

Distribution: N - Lig (Paukov & al. 2019).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rimose-areolate, 0.1-0.3 mm thick, grey to bluish grey, forming well-delimited patches, usually without a dark prothallus. Areoles to 0.8 mm wide, angular or partly rounded, usually flat. Cortex overlain by a thin epinecral layer, without crystals; medulla white, I-. Apothecia lecanorine-aspicilioid, scarce to abundant, immersed in the areoles, 1-3 per areole, 0.15-0.25 mm across, round, with a concave, black, epruinose disc, and a thin, not prominent thalline margin. Epithecium grey-green, 8-15 μm thick, N+ emerald green, usually without crystals; hymenium colourless, 100-125 μm high, I+ blue turning reddish brown; paraphyses sparingly branched, anastomosing and submoniliform in upper part, the apical cells 2-2.5 μm wide; hypothecium colourless, c. 45 μm high, I+ blue. Asci 8-spored, clavate, the thin outer coat K/I+ blue, the wall and apical dome K/I-, with 1-2-seriately arranged spores. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 22-25 x 15-17 μm, thin-walled. Pycnidia pyriform, the wall colourless except around the ostiole. Conidia short-filiform, straight to slightly curved, 7-9 μm long. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P+ orange. Chemistry: stictic acid complex.

Note: on periodically flooded siliceous rocks; a poorly known species described from the Pyrenees, which needs further study. Its distinction from the more xerophilous A. subdepressa is still an open problem (see Paukov & al. 2019, Roux & coll. 2020).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: very rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model

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Index Fungorum GBIF

Magnusson A. H. 1939. Studies in species of Lecanora, mainly the Aspicilia gibbosa group. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, ser. III, 17, .5: 1-182.