Bacidina apiahica (Müll. Arg.) Vězda

Folia Geobot. Phytotaxon., 25: 432, 1991. Basionym: Patellaria apiahica Müll. Arg. - Lichenes Epiphylli Novi: 9, 1890.
Synonyms: Bacidia apiahica (Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr.; Woessia apiahica (Müll. Arg.) Sérus.
Distribution: C - Tosc (Puntillo & Ottonello 1997, Puntillo 2000, Ravera & al. 2015b). S - Camp, Cal (Puntillo & Vezda 1994, Puntillo 1995, 1996, 2000).
Description: Thallus crustose, thinly episubstratic, ecorticate, grey-green, granulose to continuous-cracked, usually not producing goniocysts. Apothecia biatorine, usually numerous, constricted at base, 0.1-0.25(-0.5) mm across, yellow-orange to orange-red, with a flat to convex, epruinose disc, and a slightly prominent, finally excluded proper margin. Proper exciple paraplectenchymatous, without crystals, of very thin-walled (0.5-1 μm), not distinctly radiating hyphae, the outer rim yellowish green, the medullary part colourless; epithecium colourless or yellowish green, indistinctly delimited from the hymenium, K-, N-; hymenium 30-50 μm high, mostly colourless; paraphyses mostly simple, (0.8-)1-1.5 μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells clavate or only slightly thickened, to 3-4(-7) μm wide; hypothecium poorly developed, colourless to straw-coloured. Asci 8-spored, clavate to cylindrical-clavate, the apical dome K/I+ dark blue with a pale, conical-pointed apical cushion (axial mass) never penetrating through the entire d-layer, the wall K/I-, but the thin outer gel K/I+ blue, Bacidia-type. Ascospores 3(-5)-septate, hyaline, needle-like, straight, not twisted in the asci, 28-38 x 1-2 μm. Pycnidia immersed, colourless. Conidia filiform, curved, 0-l-septate, 30-43 x 0.5-1 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid, the cells 5-12(-14) μm in diam. Spot tests: thallus and apothecia K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus without lichen substances.
Note: a foliicolous pan- to subtropical species, in Italy restricted to very humid and warm forests near the coast. It is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens as “Endangered” (Nascimbene & al. 2013c).
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: leaves
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

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: extremely rare
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL79075a], Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, campus UFMS, on park on tree bark. 20°30’ S, 54°37’ W, 550 m. Leg. A. Aptroot (no 79075a), 3.07.2019, det. A. Aptroot, 2019 -Spores 4-septate, 25-30 x 2.5 μm.


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[17152], Brasilien, Mato Grosso, Serra dos Corroados, Chapada dos Guimarães, in einem submontanen Nebelwald, 800 m, 15°30' S, 55°40' W. Leg. K. Kalb, 06.07.1980. KALB: LICHENES NEOTROPICI 477.



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14164], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, Lagoa da Falca, 38°43,097' N, 27°17,222' W, ca. 520 m. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 16.07.2008


Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[17152], Brasilien, Mato Grosso, Serra dos Corroados, Chapada dos Guimarães, in einem submontanen Nebelwald, 800 m, 15°30' S, 55°40' W. Leg. K. Kalb, 06.07.1980. KALB: LICHENES NEOTROPICI 477.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL79075a], Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, campus UFMS, on park on tree bark. 20°30’ S, 54°37’ W, 550 m. Leg. A. Aptroot (no 79075a), 3.07.2019, det. A. Aptroot, 2019 -Spores 4-septate, 25-30 x 2.5 μm.