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Gyalecta subclausa Anzi

Neosymb. Lich. Rar. Nov.: 8, 1866.

Synonyms: Gyalecta chlorobaea Nyl.; Gyalecta elegantula Müll. Arg.; Gyalecta rosellovirens Nyl.

Distribution: N - Frl, Lomb.

Description: Thallus crustose, usually episubstratic but thin and often poorly visible, continuous or faintly rimose, pale pink to whitish. Apothecia 0.2-0.3 mm across, at first immersed in the thallus and almost perithecioid, then sessile, urceolate, with a concave, pink to pale yellowish disc, and a whitish, smooth, prominent proper margin. Epithecium almost colourless to pale orange-brown; hymenium and hypothecium colourless; paraphyses swollen at apices, hardly longer than the mature asci. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical to elongate-subclavate, thin-walled, without tholus, the wall and the contents I+ blue. Ascospores submuriform, hyaline, very variable in shape (subglobose to ellipsoid or slightly diamond-shaped), 10-16 x 6-10 µm. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: an inconspicuous, perhaps overlooked species found on vertical faces of calcareous rocks in humid, damp and shaded situations in upland areas.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: very rare

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

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

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TSB 3754

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

Herbarium: TSB (3754)
2001/11/24