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Bacidia iberica Aragón & I. Martínez

Bryologist, 106: 143, 2003.

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Distribution: C - Tosc (Anzi Lich. Etr. Rar. Exs. 23, see note).

Description: Thallus crustose-subsquamulose, episubstratic, greenish grey, consisting of ascending, flattened, (0.16-)02-0.3 mm long squamules with crenate to subdigitate margins. Upper cortex paraplectenchymatous, inspersed with small crystals dissolving in K but not in N. Apothecia lecideine, round, sessile and constricted at base, (0.4-)0.6-1.2(-1.6) mm across, with a flat, yellow-orange to orange disc, and a slightly paler, smooth proper margin. Proper exciple psosoplectenchymatous, 55-97 μm wide laterally, the outer part with more or less isodiametrical cells and with crystals dissolving in N but not in K, the inner part with enlarged cells: epithecium colourless to pale yellow, without crystals; hymenium colourless, 50-95 μm high; paraphyses simple or sparingly branched, 1-1.5 μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells 2-3.3 μm wide; hypothecium colourless to pale yellow, 50-80 μm high. Asci 8-spored, clavate to cylindrical-clavate, the apical dome K/I+ dark blue with a pale, conical-pointed apical cushion (axial mass), the wall I-, but the thin outer gel I+ blue, Bacidia-type. Ascospores 5-9-septate, hyaline, needle-like, straight, 42-58 x 2-3.5 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K- or K+ yellowish brown, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: cortex with low amounts of atranorin; apothecia with the Rubella-orange pigment.

Note: a Mediterranean epiphytic species, similar to B. rubella but differing in the squamulose thallus and other morphological characters. The sample from Tuscany is a duplicate of B. rubella distributed by Anzi, kept in LD (nr. 1186097), and revised by E. Llop in 2005.

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: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: very rare

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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Eutrophication:

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Poleotolerance:

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Altitudinal distribution:

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF

Harrrie Sipman. Source: http://www.bgbm.org/digitalimages/Aegean/Bacidia/P7110036.jpg