ITALIC 8.0

Lecania crozalsiana H. Olivier

Bull. Acad. Intern. Géogr. Bot., 14: 205, 1905.

Synonyms: Bacidia crozalsiana (H. Olivier) Zahlbr.; Bilimbia crozalsiana (H. Olivier) B. de Lesd.

Distribution: S - Cal (Puntillo 1996, Puntillo & Puntillo 2004), Si (CLU 13422).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, whitish to pale brown, mostly powdery. Apothecia lecideine, up to 1.2 mm across, with a black, often whitish pruinose, flat disc, and a whitish, at first crenulate then smooth proper margin. Epithecium yellowish brown, K-; hymenium and hypothecium colourless; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched, rather lax, the apical cells slightly swollen. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, surrounded by a gelatinous I+ blue coat, with a well-developed I+ blue tholus, an I+ darker blue tube and a well-developed ocular chamber, Bacidia-type. Ascospores (1-)3-septate, hyaline, ellipsoid or kidney-shaped, 20-23 x 4-6 µm, without a gelatinous perispore. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.

Note: a very rare and poorly understood, humid subtropical lichen found on more or less isolated trees in warm-humid areas, exclusively Tyrrhenian in Italy. The generic placement is still an open problem. The record from the Province of Cuneo by Piervittori (2003) appears dubious to me, and is not accepted here. It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens as “Endangered” (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).

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: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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