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Gyalidea phyllophila Vězda

Acta Mus. Silesiae, Opava, ser. A, 22: 89, 1973.

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Distribution: S - Camp (Puntillo & al. 2000, Puntillo 2000).

Description: Thallus crustose, thinly episubstratic, forming c. 1 mm wide, often confluent, whitish to grey, orbicular patches on the leaves of Buxus. Apothecia lecideine, usually 1(-2) per thalline patch, 0.3-0.35 mm across, with a pale brown to reddish brown, concave to flat disc, and a raised, usually darker proper margin. Proper exciple of radially arranged hyphae; epithecium colourless to brownish; hymenium colourless, I+ yellowish to reddish brown; paraphyses simple, free or partially bound with the asci in a gelatinous matrix, 1-1.5 µm thick, not thickened at apex; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, narrowly clavate, thin-walled, apically thickened, the wall I-. Ascospores (1-)3-6-septate, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, (11-)15-19(-24) x 5-7 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a foliicolous species described from Africa, and also known from the Pyrenees; in the only Italian station, a warm-humid coastal valley, it was found on the leaves of Laurus. It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens as “Critically Endangered” (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: leaves

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Restricted to humid-warm, oceanic areas

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: extremely 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

INDEX FUNGORUM GBIF

Domenico Puntillo - CC BY-SA 4.0

Italia

Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0

Herbarium: TSB 9442

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

Herbarium: TSB (9442)
2002/02/24

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0

[VZ1569], URSS. Transcaucasus, Colcchis. Distr. Sochi, in valle angusta rivi Agva (dextra fluminis Sochi), ad cataractas dictas Orechovye vodopady, 250 m. Ad folia Laurocerasus offzcinalis Roem., Leg. V. Vašák et. A. Vezda, 11.6.1978. EX A. VEZDA LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1569.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0

[VZ1569], URSS. Transcaucasus, Colcchis. Distr. Sochi, in valle angusta rivi Agva (dextra fluminis Sochi), ad cataractas dictas Orechovye vodopady, 250 m. Ad folia Laurocerasus offzcinalis Roem., Leg. V. Vašák et. A. Vezda, 11.6.1978. EX A. VEZDA LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1569.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0

[VZ1679], URSS. Transcaucasia, Colchis. Distr. Adler,in faucibus rivi Psacho sub vicum Kamenka, 200 m. Ad folia Laurocerasi officinalis. Leg. V. Vašák et A. Vezda, 21.6.1979. EX A. VEZDA LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1679.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0

[VZ1679], URSS. Transcaucasia, Colchis. Distr. Adler,in faucibus rivi Psacho sub vicum Kamenka, 200 m. Ad folia Laurocerasi officinalis. Leg. V. Vašák et A. Vezda, 21.6.1979. EX A. VEZDA LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1679.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0

[VZ1679], URSS. Transcaucasia, Colchis. Distr. Adler,in faucibus rivi Psacho sub vicum Kamenka, 200 m. Ad folia Laurocerasi officinalis. Leg. V. Vašák et A. Vezda, 21.6.1979. EX A. VEZDA LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1679.