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Dermatocarpon arnoldianum Degel.

Nytt Mag. Naturvid., 75: 157, 1934.

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Distribution: N - Frl (TSB 25120), Ven (Nascimbene 2004), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem (TSB 34466).

Description: Thallus foliose-umbilicate, heteromerous, dorsiventral, attached by a central holdfast, usually monophyllous, rigid when dry, 1-5 cm broad, 0.4-0.7 mm thick, growing amphibious in cold freshwaters. Upper surface smooth or slightly rippled, grey to (rarely) grey-brown when dry, greenish when wet, pruinose or epruinose; lower surface bright red-brown to yellowish, smooth to ridged but not veined, erhizinate. Upper cortex 90-260 µm thick, pseudoparenchymatous, of anticlinallly arranged hyphae, often with a brown pigment near the surface, overlain by an epinecral layer of air-filled hyphae; lower cortex c. of the same thickness, of anticlinally arranged hyphae; medulla white, I- or I+ reddish brown. Perithecia numerous, immersed in the thallus and scattered over almost the whole upper surface (appearing as black dots), without involucrellum. Exciple colourless except in the brown uppermost part; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid. Asci 8-spored, clavate, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of an endotunica to form a delicate rostrum, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, elongate-ellipsoid, (9-)13-17 x 4-7 µm. Pycnidia rare, black, immersed, multi-chambered. Conidia short-bacilliform, 4-5 x c. 1 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a rather poorly understood, but characteristic, perhaps holarctic species found on calciferous or base-rich siliceous rocks in periodically wet places, or near the ground in upland areas. According to Heidmarsson (2017), however, this is just a morph of D. miniatum. As the molecular taxonomy of the D. miniatum-complex is not fully resolved, I prefer to provisionally maintain the taxon as distinct.

Growth form: Foliose, umbilicate

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Periodically submerged (e.g. in creeks)

Poorly known taxon in need of further study

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rare

Subalpine belt: rather 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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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

Herbarium: TSB (34391)
2002/01/15

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0.

TSB 34466