ITALIC 8.0

Anema moedlingense Zahlbr.

Cat. Lich. Univ., 2: 801, 1902.

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Distribution: N - Frl. C - Abr (TSB 30590), Mol (Caporale & al. 2008).

Description: Thallus squamulose, homoiomerous, slightly gelatinous when wet, in section with a loosely reticulate network of thin hyphae enclosing groups of cyanobacterial cells. Squamules erect, peltate, brown-black to black, rather shiny, dispersed to crowded, up to 3 mm thick, 1-8 mm in diam., often richly and reticulately fissured, epruinose, not isidiate, attached by a holdfast of rhizohyphae, the margin crenulate or weakly lobulate. Apothecia pycnoascocarps, 5-9 per squamule, immersed in the thallus, at first punctiform then expanded and clearly lecanorine, 0.2-1 mm across, with a dark reddish brown, initially urceolate then flat disc, and a thick, smooth thalline margin. Proper exciple poorly developed; epithecium orange-brown, 5-10 µm high; hymenium colourless, 60-100 µm high, the hymenial gel I+ blue; paraphyses stout, to 5 µm thick, simple or sparingly branched, moniliform in upper part; hypothecium yellowish, 30-90 µm high in central part. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, thin-walled, with an amyloid external apical cap. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, 9-14 x 7-10 µm, the wall 1-2 µm thick. Pycnidia globose, 70-100 µm wide, immersed, unilocular. Conidia ellipsoid or bacilliform, 2-4 x c. 1.5 µm. Photobiont cyanobacterial, chroococcoid, of a few, 7-12 µm wide cells often penetrated by haustoria and surrounded by a gelatinous sheath which is colourless in inner parts, yellowish brown near the thallus surface. Spot tests: all negative. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on steeply inclined, sunny surfaces of calcareous rocks with periodical water seepage after rain. Italian material, congruent with two specimens from STU identified by A. Henssen (Marburg) was identified by Nimis & Tretiach (1999) as A. moedlingense Zahlbr., a variously interpreted taxon (see e.g. Henssen & Jørgensen 1990, Moreno & Egea 1992, Hafellner & Türk 2001), which lacks the characteristic spherical outgrowths of A. tumidulum (see also Zahlbruckner 1898). The suberect, deeply sulcate squamules with a reticulate surface are diagnostic.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: cyanobacteria, coccaceous (e.g. Gloeocapsa)

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

On otherwise dry surfaces with short periods of water seepage after rain

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: rare

Submediterranean belt: rather common

Padanian area: extremely rare

Humid submediterranean belt: rather rare

Humid mediterranean belt: rather rare

Dry mediterranean belt: rather rare

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Aridity:

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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Pier Luigi Nimis - Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste - CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 30605

Pier Luigi Nimis - Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste - CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 30605

Pier Luigi Nimis - Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste - CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 30605

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 30590