ITALIC 8.0

Coenogonium tavaresianum (Vězda) Lücking, Aptroot & Sipman

in Rivas Plata & al., Fungal Divers., 23: 298, 2006. Basionym: Dimerella tavaresiana Vezda - Folia Geobot. Phytotaxon., 4: 446, 1969.

Synonyms:

Distribution: N - Lig. C - Laz (Ravera & al. 1999, 2000, Munzi & al. 2004, 2007). S - Camp (CLU 17151), Bas (Bartoli & Puntillo 1996, 1998), Cal (Sérusiaux 1998).

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, continuous, minutely granulose to verrucose, olive-green to glaucous green. Apothecia biatorine, adnate, clearly constricted at base, round, 0.12-0.25(-0.35) mm across, pale to medium orange-brown, with a concave to flat disc, and a usually somewhat darker, persistent, smooth proper margin. Proper exciple paraplectenchymatous, orange-brown in outer part, colourless within, composed of globose to angular cells with an outer layer of weakly vertically oriented hyphae; hymenium colourless, (90-)100-120 µm high, I+ blue, then rapidly dirty green and finally red-brown; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched in upper part, the apical cells swollen; hypothecium colourless, poorly developed. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, thin-walled, narrowly cylindrical, without an amyloid ring around the apical pore, Catillaria-type, with uniseriate ascospores. Ascospores 1-septate, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, (8.5-)10-12(-16) x 2.5-4 µm. Pycnidia not known. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a mild-temperate lichen found on acid bark of conifers and broad-leaved trees in open, humid and warm Mediterranean woodlands; strictly Tyrrhenian in Italy. It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens as “Vulnerable” (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: bark

Photobiont: Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

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: very rare

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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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