Flavoplaca marina (Wedd.) Arup, Frödén & Søchting

in Arup & al., Nord. J. Bot., 31: 45, 2013. Basionym: Lecanora marina Wedd. - Mém. Imp. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, 19: 275, 1875.
Synonyms: Caloplaca lobulata auct. non (Flörke) Hellb. nec (Sommerf.); Caloplaca marina (Wedd.) Du Rietz; Caloplaca salina Erichsen; Gasparrinia marina (Wedd.) Hav.; Placodium marinum (Wedd.) H. Olivier
Distribution: C - Sar (Neuwirth 2018). S - Si (Nimis & al. 1994).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, yellow-orange to orange-red, very variable, continuous to rimose-areolate in central parts, forming orbicular to irregular, up to 3 cm wide patches, sometimes delimited by a paler prothallus, the margins often indistinctly lobulate, the lobules 0,1-0,3 mm wide. Areoles (0.1-)0.2-0.7(-0.9) mm wide, mostly convex, often longer than wide. Cortex paraplectenchymatous, K+ red. Apothecia zeorine, yellow-orange, often clustered, sessile when young but soon raised and strongly constricted at base, (0.2-)0.4-1.2(-1.7) mm across, with a concave to slightly convex, often uneven, orange disc, a slightly raised, smooth, often paler proper margin, and a flexuose to crenulate, sometimes finally excluded thalline margin. Thalline exciple up to 150 μm wide; proper exciple (25-)50-100(-120) μm wide, of radiating, thick-walled, tightly packed hyphae; epithecium orange-brown, granular, K+ red; hymenium colourless, (60-)70-95 μm high; paraphyses somewhat moniliform, simple to branched, 1-2(-3.5) μm thick at mid-level, the apical cells 4-7 μm wide; hypothecium colourless, sometimes inspersed with oil droplets. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-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, (9-)10.5-15(-18.5) x (3.7-)4.5-7(-8) μm, the equatorial thickening (“septum”) (1.8-)2.5-5(-6.5) μm (c. 1/3 of spore length). Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus and apothecia K+ red, C-, KC-, P-. Chemistry: thallus and apothecia with parietin (major), fallacinal, emodin, teloschistin and parietinic acid (minor), corresponding with chemosyndrome A of Søchting (1997).
Note: a Mediterranean-Atlantic species in Europe, reported also from North America, growing on basic siliceous rocks, more rarely on calciferous substrata in the salt-spray belt. According to Vondrák (in litt.), however, F. marina could be absent from Italy: the lichen with F. marina-appearance from siliceous shores in Sardinia and Sicily is in fact a member of Haloplaca; pending the publication of the new data, I still maintain these records under F. marina. See also note on F. ora.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
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)
Taxon bound to maritime-coastal situations

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: rather rare
Dry mediterranean belt: rare

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples

Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/
Courtesy: Anita Stridvall


Triin Aimla; Owner: University of Tartu
with Verrucaria maura



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL 72957], Korea, Gangwon-do, Dist. Yangyang-gun, Hyeounbukmyeoun, Hagwangjeong-ri, around Hajodae, c. 38°01’ N, c. 128°44’ E, c. 4-20 m, on coastal siliceous rock. Leg. A. Aptroot 19.10.2014, det. A. Aptroot 2014.


Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/
Courtesy: Anita Stridvall


Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/
Courtesy: Anita Stridvall



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (13343)
2001/11/13


Leif Stridvall - Source: http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/
Courtesy: Anita Stridvall


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Flavoplaca_marina.htm
France, sur paroi rocheuse du littoral - Session AFL 2007 - Finistère


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Flavoplaca_marina.htm
France, sur paroi rocheuse du littoral - Session AFL 2007 - Finistère


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Flavoplaca_marina.htm
France, sur paroi rocheuse du littoral - Session AFL 2007 - Finistère


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Flavoplaca_ora.htm
France, Pointe de Ventilègne, rochers côtiers, alt. 5 m - Corse
12/10/2015
as Flavoplaca ora


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Flavoplaca_ora.htm
France, Pointe de Ventilègne, rochers côtiers, alt. 5 m - Corse
12/10/2015
As Flavoplaca ora


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Flavoplaca_ora.htm
France, Pointe de Ventilègne, rochers côtiers, alt. 5 m - Corse
12/10/2015
As Flavoplaca ora


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Flavoplaca_ora.htm
France, Pointe de Ventilègne, rochers côtiers, alt. 5 m - Corse
12/10/2015
As Flavoplaca ora


Courtesy Danièle et Olivier Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_F/Texte_F_1/Flavoplaca_ora.htm
France, Pointe de Ventilègne, rochers côtiers, alt. 5 m - Corse
12/10/2015
As Flavoplaca ora


Joël Querellou - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Portsall


Joël Querellou - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Douvez


Joël Querellou - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Douvez


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Iles Chausey


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Le Fret


Alain Gerault - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Le Fret


Alain Gerault - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Le Fret


Alain Gerault - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Le Fret


Alain Gerault - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Le Passage, Plougastel


Alain Gerault - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Le Passage, Plougastel


Alain Gerault - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Le Passage, Plougastel


Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Lostmarc'h


Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Lostmarc'h


Michel David - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Lostmarc'h


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Crozon


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, L'Aber


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, L'Aber


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, L'Aber


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=13&lang=en
France, Crozon