Bryobilimbia fissuriseda (Poelt) Timdal, Marthinsen & Rui

in Marthinsen & al., Biodiversity Data Journal, 7): 133, 2019. Basionym: Lecidea fissuriseda Poelt - Mitt. bot. Staatss. München, 4: 181, 1961.
Synonyms: Lecidea fissuriseda Poelt; Mycobilimbia fissuriseda (Poelt) Poelt & Hafellner
Distribution: N - TAA, Piem (TSB 34606), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999).
Description: Thallus minutely squamulose, episubstratic, growing in very fine cracks of calciferous rocks. Squamules adpressed, scattered, 1-5 mm wide, finally deeply lobed, c. 500 μm thick, smooth, epruinose, pale to medium brown, paler at margins, the lower surface dirty white, attached by bundles of rhizines. Cortex overlain by a epinecral layer; medulla white, I-. Apothecia almost always present, lecideine, reddish brown to almost black, often crowded, sessile, to 1.5 mm across, at first with a flat disc and a prominent margin, finally convex, epruinose. Proper exciple and hypothecium thick, medium to dark brown, of conglutinated hyphae; epithecium brown; hymenium colourless, c. 65 μm high; paraphyses conglutinated, 2-2.5 μm thick, slightly swollen and brown at apex; hypothecium and lower part of hymenium with blue-black granules reacting K+ green. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with a I+ blue tholus and an internal, darker I+ tubular structure, the external gel I+ faintly blue, Porpidia-type. Ascospores 1-celled to sometimes finally 1-septate, hyaline, ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid, 10-15.5(-18) x 4-4.5 μm. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests; thallus and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: thallus apparently without lichen substances.
Note: a probably circumpolar, arctic-alpine lichen found in thin fissures of calciferous rocks (calcareous schist, dolomite, much more rarely pure limestone) near and especially above treeline; certainly more widespread in the Alps.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: rare
Subalpine belt: very rare
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: absent
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Herbarium: TSB (33088)
2001/12/10



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (33088)
2001/12/10



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 37859



P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 37859