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Lepraria borealis Loht. & Tønsberg

Ann. Bot. Fenn., 31: 224, 1994.

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Distribution: N - Frl (Baruffo & al. 2006), TAA (Ravera & al. 2019b), Piem (Baruffo & al. 2006, Gheza & Nascimbene 2024), VA (Baruffo & al. 2006), Emil (Baruffo & al. 2006, Fariselli & al. 2020). C - Tosc (Baruffo & al. 2006, Benesperi & al. 2007), Sar (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. 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, 60-260(-320) μm in diam., with a compact, pseudocorticate surface, rarely with a few, short projecting hyphae. Medulla absent or very thin. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P+ yellowish, UV-. Chemistry: atranorin, rangiformic acid (major), norrangiformic acid (traces).

Note: a circumboreal species growing on siliceous rocks and over epilithic mosses, mostly on horizontal or weakly inclined surfaces wetted by rain, with optimum in the oroboreal to Alpine belts of the Alps, but also occurring in the high Mediterranean mountains.

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: rather rare

Subalpine belt: rather rare

Oromediterranean belt: extremely rare

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: extremely 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

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