Ainoa mooreana (Carroll) Lumbsch & I. Schmitt

Mycol. Res., 105: 273, 2002. Basionym: Lecidea mooreana Carroll - Nat. Hist. Rev., 6: 529, 1859.
Synonyms: Biatora brujeriana (Schaer. ex D. Dietr.) Arnold; Biatora lopadioides Th. Fr.; Biatora torellii Anzi; Lecidea brujeriana (Schaer. ex D. Dietr.) Leight.; Lecidea coarctata var. brujeriana Schaer. ex D. Dietr.; Lecidea lopadioides (Th. Fr.) Grummann; Lecidea oblita Bagl. & Carestia; Lecidea torellii (Anzi) Nyl.; Trapelia mooreana (Carroll) P. James; Trapelia torellii (Anzi) Hertel
Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Hafellner 2000), Ven, TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb, Piem (Isocrono & al. 2003), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999). C - Tosc. S - Camp (Ricciardi & al. 2000).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, granular-verrucose, pale grey-brown, yellow-grey or ochraceous, sometimes partially rusty-red on iron-rich substrata, consisting of 0.1-1.4 mm wide, flat to convex, contiguous areoles. Cortex covered by an epinecral layer; medulla white, I-. Apothecia lecideine, sessile and constricted at base, 0.4-1.5(-2) mm across, with a concave to flat, dull brown to black-brown disc, and a very prominent, thick, flexuose, usually paler proper margin. Proper exciple 40-80 µm wide, cupulate, dark brown, of long-celled and thick-walled hyphae, C+ pink; epithecium colourless to brownish; hymenium colourless, 80-120 µm high, C+ pink; paraphyses sparingly branched, 0.8-1.2 µm thick, easily separated; hypothecium pale brown in upper part, darker brown in lowermost part. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, thin-walled, the apical dome K/I- or K/I+ pale blue, Trapelia-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid, 15-25(-32) x 6-11(-14) µm. Pycnidia 0.5-0.8 mm across, immersed in thalline warts, C+ pink. Conidia narrowly bacilliform, 5-6 x c. 0.7 µm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P- (but the primordia of apothecia and the parts surrounding the pycnidia reacting C+ red); apothecial sections and pycnidia C+ pink. Chemistry: gyrophoric acid in apothecia and pycnidia.
Note: a circumboreal-montane early coloniser of weathered siliceous rocks, also known from the Southern Hemisphere, mostly found on pebbles, or on large boulders near the soil surface in rather disturbed habitats (e.g. on track sides, in clearings of light forests, etc.), with optimum near treeline.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Pioneer species

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rare
Subalpine belt: rather rare
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

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 24653



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[14144], Portugal, Azoren, Terceira, im Gebiet Terra Brava südlich Algualvar, 38°44.738' N, 27°11.880' W, ca. 650 m, an Gestein. Leg. Aptroot & Schumm 15.07.2008


Pier Luigi Nimis - CC BY-SA 4.0
Herbarium: TSB 24653



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL78551, Brazil, Santa Catarina, Garuva, Quiriri, track to summit on exposed siliceous soil along track. 26°01'' S, 48°59'' W, 800-1200 m. Leg. A. Aptroot (no 78551), 30 March 2019, det. A. Aptroot 2019.



Felix Schumm - CC BY-SA 4.0
[ABL78551, Brazil, Santa Catarina, Garuva, Quiriri, track to summit on exposed siliceous soil along track. 26°01'' S, 48°59'' W, 800-1200 m. Leg. A. Aptroot (no 78551), 30 March 2019, det. A. Aptroot 2019.