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Aspicilia grisea Arnold

Ber. bayer. bot. Ges., 1: 62, 1891.

Synonyms: Aspicilia insolata (H. Magn.) Hav.; Lecanora grisea (Arnold) Lettau non Ach.; Lecanora griseolans Zahlbr.; Lecanora insolata H. Magn.

Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Hafellner 2000), Lomb (Nascimbene & al. 2021).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, rather thin, continuous to rimose-areolate, grey, dark grey to almost black, sometimes delimited by a dark prothallus. Areoles flat to slightly convex, often rounded, 0.3-1 mm wide, bearing punctiform to orbicular, 0.2-0.8 mm wide, flat, yellowish white to ochre, rarely finally grey, often abraded soralia with farinose soredia (50-80 μm diam.), which sometimes develop shiny black tips and resemble isidia. Apothecia rare, lecanorine-aspicilioid, immersed in the thallus, 0.3-0.6 mm across, with a black, epruinose disc and a thin thalline margin; proper margin well-developed. Epithecium olive-green, N+ emerald green; hymenium colourless; paraphyses sparingly branched, moniliform in upper part, the apical cell to c. 3 μm wide. Asci 8-spored, clavate, the thin outer coat K/I+ blue, the wall and apical dome K/I-. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 18-26 x 9-15 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow turning red (needle-like crystals), more rarely K+ persistently yellow, C-, KC-, P+ bright to golden yellow. Chemistry: norstictic acid, more rarely stictic acid as a major substance.

Note: a chemically variable species (see Roux & coll. 2014, 2020), found on siliceous rocks, sometimes also on pebbles, certainly more widespread in the Alps, but very much overlooked.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

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

Pioneer species

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Alpine belt: rare

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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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

United States National Herbarium - Smithsonian – CC BY-SA NC Austria, Stiria, Montes Koralpe, in confinibus Stireae Carinthiaeque loco Hebalm dicto. Leg. J. Poelt http://lichenportal.org/portal/taxa/index.php?taxon=124896