Lecidea lapicida var. pantherina (Hoffm.) Ach.

K. Vetensk.-Akad. Nya Handl., 29: 232, 1808. Basionym: Verrucaria pantherina Hoffm. - Deutschl. Fl., 2: 184, 1796.
Synonyms: Lecidea contenebricans Nyl.; Lecidea cyanea sensu Vain.; Lecidea declinascens f. ochromeliza Nyl.; Lecidea dubia Schaer.; Lecidea lactea f. ochromela Arnold; Lecidea lactea Flörke ex Schaer.; Lecidea obsoleta Nyl.; Lecidea pammicta Stirt.; Lecidea pantherina (Hoffm.) Th. Fr.; Lecidea pantherina f. ochromela (Arnold) Zahlbr.; Lecidea peralbida (Th. Fr.) H. Olivier; Lecidea polycarpa Flörke ex Sommerf.; Lecidea spilotica Nyl.; Lecidea subgrisella Nyl.; Lecidea theiodes Sommerf.; Lecidea variegata Fr.; Lecidella lactea (Schaer.) Arnold; Lecidella pantherina (Hoffm.) Stein
Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Hafellner 2000), Ven (Hertel & Schuhwerk 2010), TAA (Lang 2009, Hertel & Schuhwerk 2010, Watson 2014, Nascimbene & al. 2022), Lomb (Brackel 2010), Piem (Morisi & Sereno 1995, Isocrono & al. 2004, 2006, Isocrono & Piervittori 2008), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999, Piervittori & al. 2001, Isocrono & al. 2008, Matteucci & al. 2015c), Emil (Dalle Vedove & al. 2002, Tretiach & al. 2008, Fariselli & al. 2020), Lig (Brunialti & al. 1999). C - Tosc (Tretiach & al. 2008), Sar (Nöske 2000, Brackel & Berger 2019). S - Camp, Bas, Cal (Puntillo 1996), Si (Brackel 2008b, 2008c).
Description: Thallus crustose, episubstratic, usually < 1 mm thick, rimose to usually areolate, chalky white to whitish grey or sometimes rust-red or ochre (due to incrustations of iron-oxides), often delimited by a black prothallus. Areoles relatively small (<1 mm across), angular, contiguous, flat to slightly convex. Cortex without an epinecral layer; medulla white, I+ intensely blue-violet. Apothecia lecideine, black, arising between the areoles, constricted at base, round or more frequently angular, 0.5-1.2(-2) mm across, with a flat to slightly convex, dull, usually epruinose disc, and a persistent proper margin. Proper exciple black-brown in outer part, colourless within, the unpigmented part 30-80(-120) µm wide; epithecium greenish black to brownish black, K+ bright blue-green; hymenium colourless, 45-80 µm high, I+ blue; paraphyses usually unbranched and rarely anastomosing, the apical cells, swollen, 3.5-5 µm wide; hypothecium almost colourless to pale brown. Asci 8-spored, narrowly clavate, thick-walled, with a K/I+ pale blue tholus and a strongly amyloid, thin apical cushion, surrounded by a I+ blue outer layer, Lecidea-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid, 9-16 x 4.5-8 µm. Pycnidia black, immersed. Conidia bacilliform, more or less straight. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: thallus K+ yellow turning red (needle-like crystals), C-, KC-, P+ yellow-orange. Chemistry: norstictic acid syndrome.
Note: doubtfully distinct from var. lapicida and perhaps just a chemical strain of the latter, with a similar distribution and ecology, this taxon is widespread and common in upland areas throughout the country, but most frequent in the Alps. The record from Venezia Giulia in Nimis (1993: 384) has been excluded, as it actually is from Slovenia.
Growth form: Crustose
Substrata: rocks
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

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

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Herbarium samples


P.L. Nimis CC BY-SA 4.0
TSB 25133



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



Felix Schumm – CC BY-SA 4.0
[16523], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, an der Straße zwischen St. Georgen und Triberg. 48,13460° N, 8,28587° E, 817 m, an Granitfelsen. Leg. et det. Schumm 07.07.2010



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (25133)
2001/12/08