Lecidella elaeochroma (Ach.) M. Choisy var. flavicans (Ach.) Hazsl.

Magyar Birodalom Zuzmó-Flórájá: 197, 1884. Basionym: Lecidea anomala var. flavicans Ach. - syn. Meth. Lich.: 39, 1814.
Synonyms: Lecidea flavens (Nyl.) Nyl.; Lecidea parasema var. flavens Nyl.
Distribution: N - TAA. C - Tosc (Putortì & al. 1998), Laz. S - Camp (Garofalo & al. 2010), Pugl (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Cal (Puntillo 1996), Si (Nimis & al. 1996b).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, continuous to verrucose, usually up to 0.7 mm thick, sulphur yellow to greenish yellow, often delimited by a dark prothallus. Apothecia common, lecideine, black (brown in old or damaged specimens), sessile, (0.5-)1-1.5 mm across, with a flat to finally convex disc and a smooth to flexuose, often shiny, finally excluded proper margin. Proper exciple blue-green in outer part, colourless inside, sometimes with crystals dissolving in K; epithecium blackish green, bluish green to dull grey-blue, rarely olive; hymenium colourless, not inspersed with oil droplets, 40-70 µm high; paraphyses easily made free in K, simple, rarely anastomosing or branched in upper part, not capitate; hypothecium brownish orange (K+ bright red-brown) to reddish brown. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with an intensely K/I+ blue tholus penetrated by a faintly amyloid, broadly cylindrical axial mass, and a poorly developed ocular chamber, the wall K/I-, surrounded by a K/I+ blue outer layer, approaching the Lecanora-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, thick-walled, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, 9-19 x 4.5-10 µm. Pycnidia dark, immersed. Conidia thread-like, more or less curved. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow, KC+ yellow-orange, C+ orange, P- or P+ pale yellow. Chemistry: arthothelin, granulosin, different xanthones.
Note: morphs with a yellowish thallus are more frequent in the southern part of Tyrrhenian Italy, within eu-Mediterranean vegetation. They were not always distinguished from var. elaeochroma in the literature
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: bark
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

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

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Herbarium samples

Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidella_elaeo_flavicans.htm
France, Aéroport Campo dell' Oro, dune du Ricantu, alt : 3 m sur Genista salzmannii - Corse
8/10/2018



Pier Luigi Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (8358)



P.L Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 8358



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 8358



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 8358



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 8358


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidella_elaeo_flavicans.htm
France, Aéroport Campo dell' Oro, dune du Ricantu, alt : 3 m sur Genista salzmannii - Corse
8/10/2018


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidella_elaeo_flavicans.htm
France, Aéroport Campo dell' Oro, dune du Ricantu, alt : 3 m sur Genista salzmannii - Corse
8/10/2018


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidella_elaeo_flavicans.htm
France, Aéroport Campo dell' Oro, dune du Ricantu, alt : 3 m sur Genista salzmannii - Corse
8/10/2018


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidella_elaeo_flavicans.htm
France, Aéroport Campo dell' Oro, dune du Ricantu, alt : 3 m sur Genista salzmannii - Corse
8/10/2018


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_L/Texte_L_4/Lecidella_elaeo_flavicans.htm
France, Aéroport Campo dell' Oro, dune du Ricantu, alt : 3 m sur Genista salzmannii - Corse
8/10/2018


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, Camaret


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, Camaret


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, La Palue


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, Lesteven


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=1315&lang=en
France, Saint Philibert