Elixia flexella (Ach.) Lumbsch

J. Hattori Bot. Lab., 83: 62, 1997. Basionym: Limboria flexella Ach. - K. Vetensk.-Akad. Nya Handl.: 258, 1815.
Synonyms: Hazslinszkya inarensis Vain.; Lecidea flexella (Ach.) Hedl.; Leptographa flexella (Ach.) M. Choisy; Lithographa flexella (Ach.) Zahlbr.; Ptychographa flexella (Ach.) Coppins; Xylographa flexella (Ach.) Nyl.; Xylographa flexella f. plicata Anzi ex Arnold
Distribution: N - Frl (Nascimbene & al. 2021), Ven (Nascimbene & al. 2021), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2007b, 2022, Spribille & Lumbsch 2010), Lomb.
Description: Thallus crustose, mostly endosubstratic and poorly evident, consisting of more or less scattered goniocysts provided with a cortex of isodiametrical, brown-capped cells. Apothecia black, epruinose, sessile, constricted at base, 0.3-0.8 x 0.2-0.4 mm, from narrowly elongate to angular or more or less rounded, with a initially slit-like, later expanded and sometimes gyrose-umbonate disc, and a prominent, more or less inrolled proper margin. Proper exciple cupulate, dark brown to brown-black, up to 65 μm wide; epithecium brown; hymenium colourless to pale yellow, 30-55 μm high, I+ weakly blue; paraphyses coherent, 1-1.5 μm thick at mid level, simple or sparingly branched and anastomosing in upper part, the apical cells only slightly thickened (< 3 μm); hypothecium dark brown, in continuation with the exciple. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical to clavate, K/I+ blue, with a light amyloid tissue throughout, but with darker staining regions around the apex and in a narrow zone below the inner upper wall of tholus. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid, 4-6(-8) x 2-4.5 μm, not halonate. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.
Note: on lignum, especially on vertical sides of stumps, with optimum in the subalpine belt; certainly more widespread in the Alps.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: lignum
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: very rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model
Index Fungorum GBIF


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Curtis Randall Björk
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2008-04-01



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