Buellia miriquidica Scheid.
Bot. Helvet., 97: 112, 1987.
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Distribution: C - Sar.
Description: Thallus crustose, areolate, whitish to pale grey, dull, developing on the thalli of Schaereria fuscocinerea. Cortex of anticlinally arranged, cellular hyphae, the terminal cells swollen, with brown caps; medulla white I+ blue. Apothecia cryptolecanorine to lecideine, 0.25-0.8 mm across, innate to subsessile, with a black, epruinose, flat to convex disc, and a thin proper margin. Proper exciple thin, Aethalea-type, the inner hyphae hyaline, prosoplectenchymatous, the outer hyphae parallel and usually strongly brown-pigmented, N-; epithecium brown to olive; hymenium colourless, not inspersed with oil droplets, 40-70 µm high; hypothecium medium to dark brown. 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 1-septate, brown, strongly constricted at septum, broadly oblong, 9.5-11.5 x 5-6 µm, Buellia-type, the wall up to 1.5 µm thick, smooth. Pycnidia black, immersed. Conidia bacilliform, 3-5-4 µm long. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: miriquidic acid. Note: a mainly arctic-alpine species found on vertical surfaces of hard granitic rocks in upland areas; almost certainly present in the Alps and to be looked for there.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
paras Schaereria fuscocinerea
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: very rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
paras Schaereria fuscocinerea
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: very rare
Montane belt: extremely rare
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent
Predictive model