Anisomeridium biforme (Schaer.) R.C. Harris

in Vězda, Sched. ad Lich. Sel. Exs., fasc. 61: 1 (nr. 1503), 1978. Basionym: Verrucaria biformis Schaer. Lich. Helv. Spicil. - 2: 56, 1826.
Synonyms: Acrocordia biformis (Schaer.) Arnold; Acrocordia polycarpa (Körb.) Körb.; Acrocordia scotophora A. Massal.; Arthopyrenia biformis (Schaer.) A. Massal.; Arthopyrenia byssacea (Taylor) A.L. Sm.; Arthopyrenia conformis (Nyl.) Müll. Arg.; Ditremis biformis (Schaer.) R.C. Harris; Epicymathia thallophila (Cooke) Sacc.; Leiophloea biformis (Schaer.) Trevis.; Sagedia callopisma A. Massal.?; Verrucaria conformis Nyl.
Distribution: N - VG (TSB 16141), Frl (TSB 36583), Ven (Lazzarin 2000b, Nascimbene 2008, Nascimbene & al. 2008e, Nascimbene & Marini 2010), Lomb (Valcuvia & Truzzi 2007b), Piem (Matteucci & al. 2013). C - Tosc (Ravera & al. 2022), Umb (Ravera 1998, Ravera & al. 2006), Laz, Sar. S - Camp (Aprile & al. 2003b), Cal (Puntillo 1996)
Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic or thinly episubstratic, ecorticate, usually well-evident, white to pale grey, sometimes delimited by a black prothalline line. Perithecia black, 0.3-0.4(-0.6) mm across, hemispherical to globose, simple or compound, 1/4 to almost totally immersed, usually numerous. Exciple of cellular hyphae, usually without bark cells, with a well-differentiated involucrellum, brown-black in upper part, pale or colourless in lower part; pseudoparaphyses slender, branched and anastomosing, long-celled, c. 1 μm thick, not inspersed with oil droplets; periphyses absent; hymenial gel I-. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, K/I-, fissitunicate, the apical dome with an indistinct ocular chamber, c. 70-100 x 10 µm. Ascospores 1-septate, uniseriate in the asci, hyaline, ovoid- to fusiform-ellipsoid, (9-)12-15(-16) x 4.5-6(-7) μm, without a distinct perispore, one cell sometimes larger than the other. Pycnidia black, of two types: (a) 100-200 μm in diam., with subglobose to ellipsoid macroconidia measuring 2.3-4 x 1.8-2.7 μm, extruded as a blob of conidia bound by mucilage; or (b) 40-100 μm in diam., more or less immersed, hemispherical or globose, with globose, 1-1.5 μm wide microconidia. Photobiont trentepohlioid. Spot tests: thallus K- C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.
Note: a mild-temperate, probably holarctic species found on deciduous trees in open and humid woodlands, e.g. along creeks and rivers on Fraxinus, Populus and Salix, sometimes also on oaks.
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)

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

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Herbarium samples

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=460&lang=en
France, Lesteven



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (3503)
2001/11/21



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16463], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Waldrand nordwestlich von Holzhausen.48°44.471' N, 9°34.775' E. Leg et det. Schumm 02.04.2010


Source: Keissler K. von 1938. Pyrenulaceae, Mycoporaceae, Coniocarpineae. In: Rabenhorst G L: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. 2nd, IX, Die Flechten, Abt. 1, 2. Gebr. Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp. 1-846.


G. Gibelli, in S. Garovaglio, 1865 Tentamen Dispositionis Methodicae Lichenum In Longobardia Nascentium. Mediolanum



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[16463], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Waldrand nordwestlich von Holzhausen.48°44.471' N, 9°34.775' E. Leg et det. Schumm 02.04.2010.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[16463], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Waldrand nordwestlich von Holzhausen.48°44.471' N, 9°34.775' E. Leg et det. Schumm 02.04.2010.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[16463], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Waldrand nordwestlich von Holzhausen.48°44.471' N, 9°34.775' E. Leg et det. Schumm 02.04.2010.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[16463], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Göppingen, Waldrand nordwestlich von Holzhausen.48°44.471' N, 9°34.775' E. Leg et det. Schumm 02.04.2010.


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=460&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=460&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=460&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=460&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=460&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=460&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=460&lang=en
France, Lesteven



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14333], Seychellen, Praslin, Anse La Blague, beim Hotel La Vanilla, 4°19.793' S, 55°47.019' E, 17 m. Auf Rinde von Artocarpus. Leg. Schumm & Frahm 27.09.2008, det Aptroot 2008