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Arthopyrenia stenospora Körb.

Parerga Lichenol., 5: 390, 1865

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Distribution: N - TAA (NImis & al. 2018).

Description: Thallus crustose, endosubstratic, brownish or not evident, not lichenized. Perithecia black, 0.1-0.2 mm across, circular in outline, with a slightly flattened apical part. Involucrellum dimidiate, brown, K-, of thick-walled hyphae; exciple colourless throughout; paraphysoids soon gelatinized, not evident in mature perithecia. Asci 8-spored, obpyriform, thick-walled and fissitunicate, 45-45 x 18-20 μm. Ascospores 1-septate, not constricted at septum, the two cells often of slightly different size, withour a median constriction, hyaline, almost bacilliform, 18-22 x 2.5-3(-4) μm, with a narrow gelatinous sheath. Pycnidia rare, black. Conidia 1-celled, narrowly ellipsoid or bacilliform, 3-4 x c. 1 μm. Photobiont absent. Spot tests: all negative. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on the smooth bark of deciduous trees, widespread throughout Europe but rarely collected, most records being historical.

Growth form: Fungus

Substrata: bark

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

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Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: extremely rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model

Index Fungorum GBIF