ITALIC 7.0

Fuscidea recensa (Stirt.) Hertel, V. Wirth & Vězda

in Wirth, Beitr. naturk. Forsch. Südwestdeutschl., 31: 92, 1972. Basionym: Lecidea recensa Stirt. - Scottish Natur., 5: 219, 1879.

Synonyms: Fuscidea curvula (H. Magn.) Hertel; Lecidea arcuatula (Arnold) Nyl.; Lecidea curvula H. Magn.

Distribution: N - TAA (Thor & Nascimbene 2007, Nascimbene & al. 2022), VA, Emil (Tretiach & al. 2008, Fariselli & al. 2020).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, pale grey to brown, rarely almost white or red-brown, continuous to rimose-areolate, with convex, 0.1-0.5 mm wide areoles, often sorediate, forming regular patches to 2 cm across, usually delimited by a dark brown prothallus. Soralia at first discrete, 0.2-0.5(-0.7) mm wide, then confluent, the young soralia whitish but soon becoming brown (greenish where abraded), with granular 20-30 µm wide soredia. Medulla white, I-. Apothecia rare, black or brown, lecideine, sessile and constricted at base, 0.5-1(-1.2) mm across, with a flat to slightly convex disc, and a thin, persistent, often flexuose proper margin. Proper exciple thick, uniformly brown; epithecium brown; hymenium colourless, 55–65 μm high; paraphyses simple, 1.5-2 μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells only slightly swollen, to 3 μm wide, without a pigmented cap; hypothecium colourless. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with a thin external and internal K/I+ dark blue cap surrounded by a thick K/I+ pale blue apical cap, and with a K/I- apical tube in tholus, Fuscidea-type. Ascospores 1-celled to 1-septate, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid to kidney-shaped, curved, 9-12(-14) x 3-4(-5) μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus and soredia K-, C-, KC-, P-; medulla UV+ white. Chemistry: divaricatic acid (major) nordivaricatic acid (traces).

Note: on hard siliceous rocks in humid, sheltered sites, usually below the subalpine belt; overlooked in Italy, being often sterile. For the record from Valle d’Aosta see Nimis (1993: 301).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)

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: very rare

Submediterranean belt: extremely rare

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 CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 34824

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

Herbarium: TSB (34824)
2002/02/12

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

Herbarium: TSB (34824)
2002/02/12
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