Caloplaca anchon-phoeniceon Poelt & Clauzade

Planta, 51: 297, 1958.
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Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, parasitic on aspicilioid lichens, deep orange-red to scarlet red, somehow glossy, consisting of up to 0.6 mm wide, dispersed, convex areoles, sometimes reduced to a collar surrounding the apothecia. Cortex c. 15 µm thick, poorly delimited, paraplectenchymatous; medulla well-developed, I+ blue. Apothecia zeorine, scattered to crowded, round to angular, sessile and slightly constricted at base, 0.5-0.9 mm across, with a deep red-orange to carmine red, flat to slightly convex disc (slightly darker than the thallus) and an initially thick and prominent, usually smooth proper margin concolorous with thallus. Thalline exciple with algae almost to the edge; proper exciple slightly fan-shaped at the periphery; epithecium brownish red, with a coarse epipsamma reacting K+ purple-red; hymenium colourless, 50-70 µm high; paraphyses sparingly branched, c. 1 µm thick at base, the apical cells only slightly thickened, up to 1.5 µm wide; hypothecium colourless, inspersed with oil droplets. Asci 8-spored, clavate, functionally unitunicate, apically thickened with a broad internal beak, the inner part of apex and external cap I+ blue, Teloschistes-type. Ascospores 2-celled, polarilocular, hyaline, ellipsoid, (11-)13-15 x (5-)6-8 µm, the equatorial thickening (“septum”) (3-)4-5.5 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus and apothecia K+ purple-red, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: thallus and apothecia with unidentified anthraquinones
Note: a species with minute thalli and one to several sessile apothecia, both bright red; parasitic on silicicolous Aspicilia-species at high elevations; widespread in the Alps, but rare. Never reported from Italy but known from neighbouring countries; to be looked for in the Alps.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
paras Aspicilioid lichens

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: extremely rare
Subalpine belt: extremely rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.



Felix Schumm; Owner: Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[19562], Austria, Tirolia, Kaprun, Kleine Schmiedinger, alt. 2650 m, in pariete rupis schistosae. Leg. J. Asta, X. Llimona & Cl. Roux, 6.09.1973. VEZDA: LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCATI NR. 1219.