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Kiliasia tristis (Müll. Arg.) Hafellner

Beih. Nova Hedwigia, 79: 265, 1984. Basionym: Patellaria tristis Müll. Arg. - Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Genève, 16, 2: 398, 1862

Synonyms: Catillaria subnitida Hellb.; Catillaria tristis (Müll. Arg.) Arnold; Lecidea platycarpiza Nyl.; Patellaria tristis Müll. Arg.; Toninia subnitida (Hellb.) Hafellner & Türk

Distribution: N - TAA, Piem (TSB 33968). C - Abr (Gheza & al. 2021). S - Bas (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Si.

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic and poorly evident to episubstratic and areolate, whitish to ochre-coloured, forming 1-3 cm wide patches. Apothecia lecideine, black, somehow glossy, 0.3-0.9(-1.5) mm across, sessile and more or less constricted at base, with a flat to slightly convex, epruinose disc, and a smooth, finally excluded proper margin. Proper exciple violet-black, with a paler outer rim, K+ and N+ purple; epithecium dark blue-green, K+ and N+ purple; hymenium greenish, rarely colourless, 50-75 μm high, I+ reddish; paraphyses 1.5-2 μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells to 6-8 μm wide, surrounded by a pigmented gel; hypothecium coloured as the exciple 110-250 μm high, K+ and N+ purple. Asci 8-spored, subcylindrical, surrounded by a gelatinous I+ blue coat, with a well-developed I+ blue tholus with a I+ darker blue tube and a well-developed ocular chamber, Bacidia-type. Ascospores 1-septate, hyaline, sometimes slightly constricted at septum, oblong-ellipsoid, (8-)9-12(-13.5) x 3.5-5.5 μm. Pycnidia black, globose to pyriform. Conidia thread-like to sickle-shaped, 5.5-15.5 x 0.5-1.2 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on more or less calcareous substrata in upland areas; the generic position is still an open problem.

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rare

Subalpine belt: rather rare

Oromediterranean belt: very rare

Montane belt: very rare

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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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 04

TSB 33968

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

Herbarium: TSB (33968)
2002/12/13