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Dermatocarpon rivulorum (Arnold) Dalla Torre & Sarnth.

Die Flechten von Tirol: 504, 1902. Basionym: Endocarpon rivulorum Arnold - Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 24: 249, 1874.

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Distribution: N - Frl (TSB 4608), TAA (Nascimbene & al. 2007b), Lomb, Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004, Isocrono & Piervittori 2008), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999, Isocrono & al. 2008).

Description: Thallus foliose-umbilicate, monophyllous, rather large, (10-)13-30(-45) mm wide, attached by a central holdfast, rather thin (0.24-0.42 mm thick when dry, 0.19-0.35 mm wide when wet). Upper surface brown to dark brown, epruinose, bulging; lower surface more or less concolorous with upper surface, distinctly reticulate, erhizinate. Upper cortex pseudoparenchymatous, of anticlinally arranged hyphae, often with a brown pigment near the surface, overlain by an epinecral layer of compressed hyphae; medulla white, I-; lower cortex colourless except the brown outermost part. Perithecia numerous, immersed in the thallus and scattered over almost the whole upper surface (appearing as black dots), the ostiole immersed or slightly projecting, without involucrellum. Exciple colourless except in the brown uppermost part; hamathecium of periphyses and periphysoids, interascal filaments absent; hymenial gel hemiamyloid. Asci 8-spored, clavate, I-, fissitunicate, the wall thickened above, with an ocular chamber, dehiscent by extrusion of an endotunica to form a delicate rostrum, Verrucaria-type. Ascospores simple to rarely 1(-4)-septate, (14-)16-21(-26) x (5.5-)6- 8(-10.5) µm. Pycnidia rather common, black, sometimes immersed in warts, multi-chambered. Conidia bacilliform. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: cortex and medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-, UV-. Chemistry: without lichen substances.

Note: a widespread, cool-temperate to arctic-alpine, circumpolar species found on periodically submerged siliceous rocks, in seepage tracks or along small streams, often completely inundated during summer; it also occurs in melt-water seepages below snow-beds and along lakeshores.

Growth form: Foliose, umbilicate

Substrata: rocks

Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia

Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual

Periodically submerged (e.g. in creeks)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: very rare

Subalpine belt: rare

Oromediterranean belt: absent

Montane belt: very rare

Submediterranean belt: absent

Padanian area: absent

Humid submediterranean belt: absent

Humid mediterranean belt: absent

Dry mediterranean belt: absent

pH of the substrata:

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Solar irradiation:

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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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TSB 4608

Zahlbruckner A. 1926. Lichenes (Flechten). In: Engler A. (ed.): Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. 2nd ed., vol 8, W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 270 pp.

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TSB 4608