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Acarospora versicolor Bagl. & Carestia

Comm. Soc. Critt. Ital., 1, 5: 440, 1864.

Synonyms: Acarospora cineracea (Nyl.) Hue; Acarospora miskolensis H. Magn.

Distribution: N - TAA, Lomb (Nascimbene 2006), Piem (Isocrono & al. 2003), Lig. C - Sar (Knudsen & al. 2015). S - Camp (Jatta 1909-1911), Pugl (Jatta 1909-1911), Si (Grillo 1998, Poli & al. 1998).

Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, areolate, the areoles 0.5-1(-2) mm wide, 0.3-0.5 mm thick, usually flat, smooth, dispersed or contiguous, grey to brown, partially bluish white-pruinose, the margins most often brown. Epicortex thin or lacking; cortex 20-40 µm thick, the cells mostly 3-4 µm wide; algal layer continuous; medulla white, up to 0.3 µm thick, I-. Apothecia lecanorine, immersed, 0.1-0.4 mm across, with a black, concave disc, and a thin thalline margin. Proper exciple prosoplectenchymatous, I-, forming a black excipular ring around the disc; epithecium brown; hymenium colourless, 100-120 µm high, hemiamyloid, I+ blue rapidly turning red-brown, K/I+ blue; paraphyses 1.5-2 µm thick at mid-level, the apical cells hardly swollen or sometimes up to 4-5 µm wide; hypothecium thin, colourless. Asci 100-200-spored, cylindrical to narrowly clavate, the apical dome K/I-. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid, 3-5 x 1.5-2 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: on basic siliceous rocks in the Mediterranean belt, but also on walls in Alpine villages, and on thin soil layers, probably more widespread in Tyrrhenian Italy and in dry-warm Alpine valleys below the montane belt. For further details see Knudsen & al. (2015).

Growth form: Crustose

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Subcontinental: restricted to areas with a dry-subcontinental climate (e.g. dry Alpine valleys, parts of Mediterranean Italy)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent

Subalpine belt: absent

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: extremely rare

Submediterranean belt: very rare

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare

Humid mediterranean belt: very rare

Dry mediterranean belt: rare

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

Herbarium samples

Index Fungorum GBIF

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Magnusson A. H. (1935) Acarosporaceae, Thelocarpaceae. - In: Rabenhorst G. L.: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich, und der Schweiz-. 2nd- IX. Die Flechten. Abt. 5- 1. Gebr. Borntraeger. Leipzig, pp. 1-318. – Public Domain