Lecanora fuscescens (Sommerf.) Nyl.

in Norrlin, Not. Sällsk. Fauna Fl. Fenn. Förh., 13: 331, 1873. Basionym: Lecidea fuscescens Sommerf. - K. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl.: 114, 1824.
Synonyms: Biatora fuscescens (Sommerf.) Fr.; Biatorella fuscescens (Sommerf.) Boistel
Distribution: N - Ven (Lazzarin 1997), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2007b), Lomb, Piem.
Description: Thallus crustose, granular to verrucose-areolate, sometimes reduced to sparse granules near the apothecia, yellowish white to whitish grey, without a distinct prothallus. Medulla white, I- or I+ pale blue. Apothecia indistinctly lecanorine when young, later biatorine, sessile, 0.3-0.6(-0.8) mm across, with a pale to dark brown, sometimes grey-pruinose, convex disc and a thin, slightly prominent, smooth, entire, soon excluded thalline margin. Thalline exciple with very few algal cells, lacking crystals, ecorticate; proper exciple colourless, lacking crystals; epithecium brown to reddish brown, with pigment and crystals insoluble in K (the latter present only in apothecia with pale brown discs); hymenium colourless, 70-90 µm high, not inspersed with oil droplets; paraphyses capitate, the apical cells up to 3 µm wide; hypothecium colourless, 80-120 µm high, not inspersed. Asci 8-spored, clavate, very thin-walled, with a K/I+ blue, tall tholus penetrated by a faintly amyloid apical cushion, the wall K/I-, surrounded by a blue outer layer, Lecanora-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, (5-)7-11(-13) x 4-6(-7.5) µm, the wall <1 µm thick. Pycnidia frequent, immersed, black. Conidia thread-like, 7-11 x 1-1.5 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ pale yellow, C-, KC-, P+ orange-red. Chemistry: lobaric acid (major), fumarprotocetraric acid (major or absent), confumarprotocetraric acid (trace or absent), and unknowns (minor or absent).
Note: a probably circumboreal-montane species found on twigs of shrubs, especially Rhododendron ferrugineum in the subalpine belt, sometimes on lignum; probably restricted to the Alps in Italy.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

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

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Felix Schumm CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus
Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[2307], USA, Idaho, Bonner CO., on Gisborne Mtn. in the Priest River Experimental Forest, 48°21' N, 116°46' W, on a W facing slope in the Abies lasiocarpa-Pachistima myosinitis habitat type; ca. 4900 ft, on bark of Pinus contorta. Leg et det. Theodore L.Esslinger 09.07.1969, #1148.



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04
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