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Lecanora orbicularis (Schaer.) Vain.

Termeszetr. Füzetek, 22: 286, 1899. Basionym: Lecanora polytropa var. orbicularis Schaer. - Enum. Crit. Lich. Eur.: 81, 1850.

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Distribution: N - TAA (Hafellner 1993, Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb (Nascimbene 2006), Piem (Morisi & Sereno 1995, Isocrono & al. 2003), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999).

Description: Thallus crustose-placodioid, episubstratic, yellowish green to greenish grey, sometimes bluish grey in central parts, smooth and somewhat shiny, epruinose, forming 0.5-2(-3) cm wide, regular rosettes which often tend to die in central parts. Marginal lobes 1-2(-3) mm long and 0.3-0.5 mm wide, contiguous, convex to flat; central part of thallus of convex to bullate, to 1 mm wide, contiguous areoles, Cortex c. 25 µm thick, with yellowish grey granules; medulla white, rather lax. Apothecia lecanorine, 0.3-1(-3) mm across, with an initially flat, then strongly convex, greenish disc and an entire to crenulate, finally excluded thalline margin. Epithecium hardly distinguishable from the hymenium; hymenium colourless to yellowish grey due to diffuse granules, 50-70 µm high, inspersed with oil droplets in upper part; paraphyses sparingly branched and anastomosing, slightly thickened at apex; hypothecium colourless. 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, ellipsoid, (6-)8-13.5 x (4-)5.5-7(-8) µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K- or K+ indistinctly brownish yellow, C-, KC+ pale yellow, P-. Chemistry: thallus with usnic, rangiformic and norrangiformic acids.

Note: an arctic-alpine lichen growing on hard siliceous rocks, often on steeply inclined or rain-sheltered surfaces, with optimum above treeline; probably restricted to the Alps, where it reaches the nival belt.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

In underhangs rarely wetted by rain

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rather rare

Subalpine belt: rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: absent

Submediterranean belt: absent

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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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

Index Fungorum GBIF

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0

TSB 35353

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

Herbarium: TSB (34120)
2001/12/11

Juri Nascimbene - CC BY-SA 4.0

Stelvio National Park, Reg. Trentino-Alto Adige Prov. Trento, Italy.
07.2005

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

Herbarium: TSB (34120)
2001/12/11
marginal lobes