ITALIC 8.0

Lecidea fuliginosa Taylor

in Mackay, Fl. Hibern.: 131, 1836.

Synonyms: Biatora conglomerata A. Massal.; Lecidea confusa Nyl.; Psora conglomerata (A. Massal.) Körb.; Psora fuliginosa (Taylor) Stein; Psora koerberi A. Massal.; Toninia confusa (Nyl.) Boistel

Distribution: N - TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004), VA (Favero-Longo & al. 2006, Isocrono & al. 2008, Favero-Longo & Piervittori 2009). C - Abr (Jatta 1909-1911), Sar.

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, verrucose-areolate, of brown to dark brown (green when wet), often shiny, 0.5-2(-3) mm wide, 0.5-1.5 mm thick, convex to subglobose, contiguous areoles forming small pillows which are rather loosely attached to the rock. Medulla white, I-. Apothecia lecideine, black, 0.4-0.8(-1.2) mm across, adnate to sessile, with a rapidly convex disc and a soon excluded proper margin. Proper exciple thin, black to dark brown, of radiating hyphae, the marginal cells 6-8 µm wide; epithecium brown, K-; hymenium colourless or pale brown, 30-40 µm high; paraphyses coherent, sparingly branched and anastomosing, the apical cells up to 6 µm wide, with a dark cap; hypothecium dark brown, very thick and often substipitate. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, with a K/I+ blue outer coat and a K/I+ uniformly blue apical dome, Catillaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid to subfusiform, 7-10(-12) x 4-6 µm. Pycnidia dark, immersed. Conidia thread-like, curved. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.

Note: in small fissures of hard siliceous rocks in open, but wind-protected situations, mostly in upland areas. Most probably not a Lecidea s.str.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: very rare

Oromediterranean belt: extremely rare

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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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Leif Stridvall http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php

Author: Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php