ITALIC 8.0

Lepraria alpina (B. de Lesd.) Tretiach & Baruffo

in Baruffo & al., Nova Hedwigia, 83: 390, 2006. Basionym: Crocynia alpina B. de Lesd. - Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 61: 85, 1914.

Synonyms: Crocynia antarctica Hue; Crocynia caerulescens Hue; Crocynia candidissima Hue; Crocynia minima Hue; Lepraria angardiana Øvstedal; Lepraria cacuminum (A. Massal.) Loht.; Leproloma angardianum (Øvstedal) J.R. Laundon; Leproloma cacuminum (A. Massal.) J.R. Laundon

Distribution: N - Frl (Baruffo & al. 2006), Ven, TAA, Lomb, Piem (Baruffo & al. 2006), VA (Borlandelli & al. 1996, Piervittori & Isocrono 1999, Piervittori & al. 2004, Baruffo & al. 2006, Isocrono & al. 2008), Emil (Benesperi & al. 2007, Fariselli & al. 2020). C - Tosc (Baruffo & al. 2006, Benesperi & al. 2007). S - Cal (Puntillo 1996, Baruffo & al. 2006).

Description: Thallus crustose to subleprose, whitish to whitish grey, up to 0.7 mm thick, entirely consisting in a mass of granules, usually well-delimited, sometimes indistinctly sublobate at margin, forming up to 10 cm wide patches (usually less). The thallus starts developing as isolated, dispersed granules that form piles, or aggregations (best visible along the margins, where the dispersion of the young granules is most readily observed) which eventually overlap and become confluent, giving the false appearance of a continuous thallus in older areas. Granules rather firmly attached, coarse, 80-150 μm in diam., sometimes gathered into 200-300 μm wide aggregates, with a well-developed pseudocortex, the surface appearing compact, rarely with very short projecting hyphae; Medulla white and cottony, rather thin (0.3-0.5 mm), often partially exposed. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K- or K+ pale yellow, C-, KC- or KC+ yellow, P- or P+ pale yellow, UV-. Chemistry: atranorin, porphyrilic acid and a fatty acid (roccellic/angardianic or rarely rangiformic acid); very rarely fatty acids and/or atranorin can be absent.

Note: on epilithic mosses and soil in alpine grasslands, in rain-subjected sites with a long snow-lie, both on siliceous and weakly calciferous substrata; rather common in the Alps, where it reaches the nival belt, rarer elsewhere in Italy.

Growth form: Leprose

Substrata: rocks, soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: common

Subalpine belt: rather common

Oromediterranean belt: rare

Montane belt: absent

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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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 32749

Miris Castello - CC BY-SA 4.0; Owner: Department of Life Sciences - University of Trieste

Antarctica, Terra Nova Bay.
Herbarium: TSB - Antarctic Herbarium

Miris Castello - CC BY-SA 4.0; Owner: Department of Life Sciences - University of Trieste

Antarctica, Terra Nova Bay.
Herbarium: TSB - Antarctic Herbarium

Miris Castello - CC BY-SA 4.0; Owner: Department of Life Sciences - University of Trieste

Antarctica, Terra Nova Bay.
Herbarium: TSB - Antarctic Herbarium

Miris Castello - CC BY-SA 4.0; Owner: Department of Life Sciences - University of Trieste

Antarctica, Terra Nova Bay.
Herbarium: TSB - Antarctic Herbarium

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

Herbarium: TSB (32749)
2001/12/13