Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 5
Sonia Ravera1, Alfredo Vizzini2, Annalena Cogoni3, Michele Aleffi4, Renato Benesperi5,
Elisabetta Bianchi5, Wolfgang von Brackel6, Daniela Cataldo7, Costantino D’Antonio8, Luca Di
Nuzzo5, Sergio Enrico Favero Longo9, Gabriele Gheza10, Debora Isocrono11, Enrica Matteucci9,
Stefano Martellos12, Lorenzo Morosini12, Pier Luigi Nimis12, Silvia Ongaro12, Silvia Poponessi13,
Domenico Puntillo14, Francesco Sguazzin15, Mauro Tretiach12
1 via del Labaro 54, 00188 Roma, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei
Sistemi, Università di Torino, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italy and Institute for
Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP) - CNR, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, 10125, Torino, Italy 3
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, viale
Sant’Ignazio da Laconi 13, 09123 Cagliari, Italy 4 Scuola di Bioscienze e Medicina Veterinaria,
Università degli Studi di Camerino, Unità di Biodiversità Vegetale e Gestione degli Ecosistemi,
Laboratorio ed Erbario di Briologia, via Pontoni 5, 62032 Camerino (Macerata), Italy 5
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy 6
Kirchenweg 2, D-91341 Röttenbach, Germany 7 Via Castagne 17, 95017 Piedimonte Etneo
(Catania), Italy 8 I.I.S.S. ITN "F. Caracciolo" – IM "G. da Procida", Via Principe Umberto 40,
80079 Procida (Napoli), Italy 9 Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi,
Università di Torino, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italy 10 Sezione di Ecologia del
Territorio, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università di Pavia, Via S.
Epifanio 14, 27100 Pavia, Italy 11 Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari,
Università di Torino, Largo Paolo Braccini, 10095 Grugliasco (Torino), Italy 12 Dipartimento di
Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy 13
Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via del
Giochetto 6, 06126 Perugia; 14 Museo di Storia Naturale della Calabria ed Orto Botanico,
Università della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza), Italy; 15 Via Selvotta 61,
33055 Muzzana del Turgnano (Udine), Italy
Corresponding author: Sonia Ravera (sonia.ravera@unimol.it)
Abstract
In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi and lichens and of the Italian flora
are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the bryophyte genera Diplophyllum
and Ptychostomum, the fungal genera Arrhenia, Gymnosporangium and Sporidesmium, the
lichen genera Arthonia, Coenogonium, Flavoplaca, Gyalolechia, Parmotrema, Peltigera,
Pterygiopsis, Squamarina, Tornabea and Waynea.
Keywords
Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Bryidae, Jungermanniidae, floristic data
How to contribute
The text of the records should be submitted electronically to: Rossella Pistocchi
(rossella.pistocchi@unibo.it) for algae, Annalena Cogoni (cogoni@unica.it) for bryophytes,
Alfredo Vizzini (alfredo.vizzini@unito.it) for fungi, Sonia Ravera (sonia.ravera@unimol.it) for
lichens.
Floristic records
BRYOPHYTES
Errata corrige: Paludella squarrosa (Hedw.) Brid. (Meesiaceae), erroneously reported as new
for Trentino-Alto Adige in Ravera et al. (2017), is confirmed for the region but new only for the
mentioned site.
Diplophyllum obtusifolium (Hook.) Dumort. (Scapaniaceae)
+ FRV: Alta Carnia, (Udine), on moist soil, (UTM WGS84 33T 359573.5156682), ca 1632 m,
19 October 2014, F. Sguazzin, L. Boemo, A. Boemo (Bryophytorum Herbarium F. Sguazzin). –
Species confirmed for the flora of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Diplophyllum obtusifolium is a montane-arctic-circumpolar liverwort species (Dierßen
2001). It was found together with Sphagnum palustre L., this a particular finding because usually
it is a pioneer species that colonizes soils banks and track sides (Lockhart et al. 2012). According
to Aleffi et al. (2008) the presence in Italy of D. obtusifolium is restricted to a number of northern
localities with the only exception of Abruzzo Region. Its occurrence in Lazio and Marche has not
been confirmed over the last 50 years. The herbarium specimen by Rossetti and kept in the
Herbarium of the University of Pisa (PI), for Toscana (leg. Rossetti, August 1891, Forno Volasco,
Apuan Alps) corresponds to Diplophyllum obtusatum (R.M. Schust.) R.M. Schust. (Aleffi et al.
2008). After 114 years since the first report of the species, the present finding is a confirmation
for Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Bizzozzero 1885, Loitlesberger 1905, Glowacki 1908). The species
does not seem to be widespread in the Mediterranean basin, being reported only for BosniaHerzegovina, Bulgaria, Serbia, Spain, France and Italy (Ros et al. 2007). It had been erroneously
reported from Portugal by Ros et al. (2007), but this record is based on phytosociological relevés
from the Serra da Estrela and after a revision of the material, it was correctly re-attributed to
Diplophyllum taxifolium (Wahlenb.) Dumort. (Ellis et al. 2012). With reference to the global
range, D. obtusifolium is distributed throughout the western part of North America, and is also
widely present in Asia, Europe and eastern North America. According to Hodgetts (2015), it is
considered Endangered (EN) in Hungary and Netherlands, Near Threatened (NT) in Luxemburg,
Ireland and Italy, Vulnerable (VU) in Germany.
S. Poponessi, F. Sguazzin, M. Aleffi
Ptychostomum subneodamense (Kindberg) J.R. Spence (Bryaceae)
+ TAA: Kirchbergtal, south of Santa Gertrude (Bolzano) on the right bank of the Kirchbergbach,
among the stones and the low vegetation of the stream (UTM WGS84 32T 643004.5147513),
1735 m, 27 June 2017, F. Sguazzin (Bryophytorum Herbarium F. Sguazzin). – The species is
confirmed for the flora of Trentino-Alto Adige.
The old combination Bryum subneodamense Kindb. with which was shown for Italy by
Cortini Pedrotti (2006) was considered as synonym of Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.)
J.R. Spence & H.P. Ramsay by Ros et al. (2013), but the same Spence (2013 and in FNA 2014)
claimed that P. subneodamense is a distinct species. P. subneodamense is a temperate-arcticcircumpolar species, in Europe regionally threatened (Dierβen 2001). Formerly the species is
known only for Valle d’Aosta (Vaccari 1913, sub Bryum neodamense Itzigs. var ovatum Lindb.
et Arr.), Veneto (Venturi 1899, sub Bryum neodamense Itzigs. var. ovatum Lindb.) and Trentino-
Alto Adige (Geheeb 1883, sub Bryum ovatum Jur. and Venturi 1899, sub Bryum neodamense
Itzigs. var. ovatum Lindb.). Moreover, Holyoak and Hedenäs (2006), mention a herbarium
specimen of Bryum subneodamense Kindberg collected nearby Gorizia (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
by Loitlesberger (1903, iii, Hb S) and reviewed by Podpĕra (1942). Therefore this record of P.
subneodamense represents the confirmation of the occurrence in Italy of this rare species after
115 years from its last record.
F. Sguazzin
FUNGI
Arrhenia spathulata (Fr.) Redhead (Hygrophoraceae)
+ CAL: Bosco di Mavigliano, Montalto Uffugo (Cosenza), on the moos Pleurochaete squarrosa
(Brid.) Lindb. (UTM WGS84: 33S 604782.4360104), 200 m, 25 February 2017, D. Puntillo
(CLU No. 56); Imbutillo, Curinga (Catanzaro) on the moos P. squarrosa (UTMWGS84 33S
606081.4298323) 1 m, 24 November 2017, D. Puntillo (CLU No. 72). New species for the
mycobiota of Calabria.
The species is recognizable for its spatuliform, petaliform to flabelliform (fan-shaped)
basidiome, for its little raised anostomatized and spaced veins, for the short and lateral stipe and
for the flexible and wavy margin. The species grows on the soil with the moss P. squarrosa or
other mosses. It was known from Piemonte (Pollini 1824), Trentino-Alto Adige (Marisa et al.
1986), Toscana (Barluzzi et al. 1996, Perini et al. 1999), Marche (Maletti 2016), Lazio (Granito
and Lunghini 2011), Campania (Violante et al. 2002), Sicilia (Signorello and Napoli 1994,
Lantieri 2006, Lantieri et al. 2009), Lombardia, Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Puglia (Onofri et
al. 2005).
D. Puntillo
Gymnosporangium clavariiforme (Wulfen) DC. (Pucciniaceae)
+ CAL: Piano di Novacco, Saracena (Cosenza), on twigs of Juniperus communis L. (UTM
WGS84: 33S 589506.4406265), 1305 m, 24 May 2014, D. Puntillo (CLU No. 69). New species
for the mycobiota of Calabria.
This is a heteroecious rust which grows on Juniperus spp. as primary hosts and producing in
springtime a set of orange tentacle-like spore tubes (tetial stage) with a jelly like consistency
when wet. The secondary hosts are Crataegus spp. where G. clavariiforme produces yellowish
depressions on the leaves (spermogonial and aecial stage). The species is widespread in Austria,
Belgium, Dalmatia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Ungary (De Toni 1888). In Italy the
species has been recorded from Val d’Aosta (Traverso 1912), Alto Adige (Hellrigl 2010) and
Friuli (Tomasi 2014).
D. Puntillo
Sporidesmium bacidiicola Alstrup (Sporidesmiaceae)
+ SIC: Monte Egitto, Bronte (Catania), western slope of the Etna, in an ancient Quercus
congesta forest, on bark, parasitic on Physcia tenella (Scop.) DC. (UTM WGS84: 33S
493690.4179961), 1550 m, 6 October 2017, leg. D. Cataldo, det. W. v. Brackel (Herb. Brackel
7990). – New species for the mycobiota of Italy (Sicilia).
The genus Sporidesmium consists of fungi with a mycelium lacking hyphopodia, brown
macronematous conidiophores and solitary, euseptate, brown to subhyaline conidia, developing
terminally and holoblastic. Most of the species of the genus are saprotrophic or parasites of
vascular plants and fungi. Only two species are lichenicolous: Sporidesmium lichenicola Iturr. et
al., living on Leptogium (Iturriaga et al. 2008), and S. bacidiicola, described from Denmark on
Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A. Massal. (Alstrup 1991). Later it was found also growing on
Fellhaneropsis vezdae (Coppins and P. James) Sérus. and Coppins and on Physcia adscendens H.
Olivier and was known until now only from Denmark, Poland and Germany (Alstrup and Olech
1996, Czyžewska and Kukwa 2009, Alstrup et al. 2013, von Brackel 2014). The species is
characterized by effuse colonies, an immersed mycelium, erect, brown, septate, proliferating
conidiophores, integrated conidiogenous cells, and brown, narrowly ellipsoid, 5–9(–12)-septate
conidia.
D. Cataldo, W. v. Brackel
LICHENS
Arthonia granosa B. de Lesd. (Arthoniaceae)
+ CAM: Centola (Salerno), on Quercus suber L. (UTM WGS 84: 32T 526512.4434694), 290 m,
25 February 2011, G. Brunialti, V. Genovesi, S. Ravera. – Species new for the flora of Campania.
A rare Mediterranean-Atlantic species, doubtfully lichenized, often collected on cork oak
(e.g. Fos 1998, Ravera 2002, Rizzi et al. 2011, Boutabia et al. 2015), characteristic lichen of the
Arthonietum granosae Giralt & Gómez-Bolea 1987, an epiphytic community restricted to coastal
situations with humid maritime winds. Arthonia granosa is distingished from superficially
similar Arthonia spp. by the white pruina on the round to oblong apothecia, hymenium I+ wine
colour and 1-septate guttulate spores 18-30 × 8-13 µm. In Italy the species have been reported
from Lazio, Sardegna, Puglia (Nimis 2016) and Sicilia (Ottonello et al. 2011): due to its rarity, it
is included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens under the “Vulnerable” category
(Nascimbene et al. 2013).
S. Ravera
Coenogonium luteum (Dicks.) Kalb & Lücking (Coenogoniaceae)
+ TOS: Marina di Castagneto Carducci (Livorno), on Juniperus oxycedrus subsp. macrocarpa
(Sm.) Neilr. (UTM WGS 84: 32T 624680.4784765), 8 m, 24 November 2017, L. Di Nuzzo, E.
Bianchi, R. Benesperi. – Species confirmed for the flora of Toscana.
Coenogonium luteum is a crustose pantropical lichen with orange to pink apothecia and
green thallus. Its distribution includes both hemispheres, in Italy is a mostly Tyrrhenian species
(Nimis 2016). It was found in shaded situations and due to its rarity, it is included in the Italian
red list of epiphytic lichens under the “Least Concern” category (Nascimbene et al. 2013).
L. Di Nuzzo, E. Bianchi, R. Benesperi
Flavoplaca limonia (Nimis and Poelt) Arup, Frödén and Søchting (Teloschistaceae)
+ FVG: Castle of San Giusto (Trieste), near the entrance on inclined surfaces of calciferous
sandstone (UTM WGS84: 32N 871998.5066124), 80 m, 25 January 2016, P.L. Nimis (TSB No.
47501). – Species new to Friuli Venezia Giulia.
A species of the F. citrina-complex, characterised by the large soredia/blastidia, a limoniatype of soralium, a pale yellow thallus, and a thick apothecial margin often covered by blastidia,
found on calcareous rocks or on base-rich, hard siliceous cliffs in dry and sun-exposed to shaded
and damp situations, but also on twigs of maritime shrubs or on soil, below the montane belt.
The species, described from calcareous cliffs along the coast of the Island of Marettimo, Sicilia
(Nimis et al. 1994), proved to be quite widespread in Southern Europe (see e.g. Vondrák et al.
2009). Its hitherto known Italian distribution was limited to coastal localities of Puglia, Sicilia
and Sardegna, and an inland locality in Veneto (Nimis 2016), but the species is certainly more
widespread in Italy, since in the past it was generally identified as “Caloplaca citrina”.
P.L. Nimis
Gyalolechia fulgida (Nyl.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup (Teloschistaceae)
+ PIE: Gremiasco (Alessandria), surroundings of the Osservatorio Astronomico Cà del Monte,
on south-facing sandstone outcrops (UTM WGS84: 32T 506270.4962306), 682-687 m, 9
December 2016, G. Gheza (Herb. Gheza); Monte Vallassa, Ponte Nizza (Pavia), on a southeastfacing sandstone outcrop in the wood (UTM WGS84: 32T 507119.4962675), 725 m, 9
December 2016, G. Gheza (Herb. Gheza). – Species new for the flora of Piemonte.
+ LOM: surroundings of Agriturismo Guardamonte, Bagnaria (Pavia), on a southeast-facing
sandstone rock face (UTM WGS84: 32T 507608.4962932), 720 m, 10 August 2016, G. Gheza
(Herb. Gheza). – Species new for the flora of Lombardia.
Gyalolechia fulgida is a mediterranean species found mainly on calcareous rocks in the
mediterranean belt (Nimis 2016). It was previously known for northern Italy only in one site in
Liguria (Valcuvia Passadore et al. 2000). The three new sites reported here, which extend to
Piemonte and Lombardia the Italian range of the species, are actually very close, being located
on two mountainsides with thermo-xeric character of a mount placed along the boundary
between the Val Curone (Alessandria) and the Val Staffora (Pavia). In these sites, G. fulgida was
found together with the lichens Placidium sp., Squamarina cartilaginea (With.) P.James and
Squamarina stella-petraea Poelt and the moss Grimmia sp., in more or less sheltered concavities
of sandstone outcrops, both on the thin soil layer over weathered sandstone and on the very rock.
G. Gheza
Parmotrema hypoleucinum (J. Steiner) Hale (Parmeliaceae)
+ CAM: Isola di Vivara, Procida (Napoli), on twigs of Erica arborea L. and Olea europaea L.
(UTM WGS84: 33T 415034.4510875), 13 October 2008, C. D’Antonio (TSB No. 47500). –
Species new to Campania.
This is a pantropical-pantemperate species with a Mediterranean-Atlantic distribution in
Europe, found on twigs of trees and shrubs in undisturbed Mediterranean maquis vegetation
along the coasts, which can be easily distinguished from all other Parmotrema-species occurring
in Italy by the white lower surface. It is a characteristic lichen of a rare and endangered epiphytic
community which is most frequent on undisturbed, coastal sand dunes, the Parmotremetum
reticulati-hypoleucini Nimis and Schiavon (1986). Its distribution in Italy is predominantly
Tyrrhenian, the species having been reported from Toscana, Lazio, Sardegna, Puglia, Basilicata
and Calabria (Nimis 2016). The species is generally very rare, having been included in the Italian
red list of epiphytic lichens as “Near-threatened” (Nascimbene et al. 2013), and is certainly
declining, due to increasing touristic exploitation of coastal environments. The new record fills a
gap in its distribution along the Tyrrhenian coasts of the Italian Peninsula.
P.L. Nimis, C. D’Antonio
Peltigera monticola Vitik. (Peltigeraceae)
+ PIE: Oropa (Biella), near the Santuario, on soil (UTM WGS84: 32T 420405.5053261), 1150
m, summer 1905, leg. L. Micheletti det. D. Isocrono, E. Matteucci, S.E. Favero Longo (TO n.
3412); Crissolo (TO), Pian del Re, near Fiorenza Lake, (UTM WGS84: 32T 348927.4951186),
2150 m, 10 September 2012, on serpentinite outcrops D. Isocrono, E. Matteucci, S.E.. Favero
Longo (TO n. 2118). – Species new for the flora of Piemonte.
Peltigera monticola is a terricolous species described by Vitikainen (Vitikainen 1994),
which belongs to the large Peltigera canina group: a species complex that comprises worldwide
taxa often difficult to identify (Miadlikowska et al 2003) and for this reason often
misunderstood. It is considered rare in Italy, where it has been reported for Eastern Alps and
Sardinia (Nimis 2016). The records reported here are the first for Italian Western Alps. The first
record from Piemonte is available through a herbarium specimen collected by Luigi Micheletti
near Oropa and previously identified as Peltigera canina (L.) Willd.
D. Isocrono, E. Matteucci, S.E. Favero Longo
Pterygiopsis affinis (A. Massal.) Henssen (Lichinaceae)
+ MAR: Gole della Rossa, Fabriano (Ancona), on calcareous rock (UTM WGS84: 33T 338355.
4810338), 200 m, 3 November 2017, L. Morosini. – Species new for the flora of Marche.
+ UMB: Monte di Pale, Foligno (Perugia), near the Eremo di Santa Maria Giacobbe on
calcareous rock, (UTM WGS84: 33T 318298.4761664), 520 m, 30 August 2017, L. Morosini. –
Species new for the flora of Umbria.
+ BAS: Parco dei Monaci (Matera), along Gravina stream on calcareous rock (UTM WGS84:
33T 639479.4496784), 130 m, 10 June 2016, M. Tretiach, S. Ongaro; Parco dei Monaci
(Matera), along Gravina stream on calcareous rock (UTM WGS84: 33T 640142. 4495777), 125
m, 10 June 2016, M. Tretiach, S. Ongaro; Province of Matera, on calcareous rock wall (UTM
WGS84: 33T 640199. 4496976), 195 m, 10 June 2016, M. Tretiach, S. Ongaro; Contrada
Murgia Timone (Matera), on calcareous rock (UTM WGS84: 33T 636965. 4502634), 380 m, 10
June 2016, M. Tretiach, S. Ongaro. – Species new for the flora of Basilicata.
Pterygiopsis affinis is the only species of the genus Pterygiopsis known to occur in Italy.
The genus is part of the family Lichinaceae, which includes several genera, with varied
morphology and different photobionts. Some genera are particularly difficult to identify, and
their taxonomic position is debatable. Pterygiopsis affinis is a crustose lichen with a placodioid,
effigurate thallus, from bluish black to dark grey. Apothecia are lecanorine, with proper margin
and red disc. Asci are multi-spored, with hyaline, sub-globose to broadly ellipsoid ascospores,
ca. 6-12 × 3-6 µm. The photobiont is a chroococcoid, unicellular cyanobacterium (Gloeocapsa),
with a yellowish mucilaginous cell envelope. Pterygiopsis affinis is a rare epilithic lichen, which
tolerates high solar radiation and prolonged drought. It grows on south-exposed rocks, often
along seepage tracks. In Italy P. affinis occurs from the Alpine regions to Puglia and Sardegna,
but with lack of knowledge in several regions (Nimis 2016), its frequency has been certainly
underestimated.
S. Ongaro, L. Morosini, S. Martellos, M. Tretiach
Squamarina stella-petraea Poelt (Squamarinaceae)
+ PIE: Gremiasco (Alessandria), surroundings of the Osservatorio Astronomico Cà del Monte,
on south-facing sandstone outcrops (UTM WGS84: 32T 506270.4962306), 682-687 m, 9
December 2016, G. Gheza (Herb. Gheza). – Species confirmed for the flora of Piemonte.
+ LOM: surroundings of Agriturismo Guardamonte, Bagnaria (Pavia), on a southeast-facing
sandstone rock face (UTM WGS84: 32T 507608.4962932), 720 m, 10 August 2016, G. Gheza
(Herb. Gheza). – Species new for the flora of Lombardia.
Squamarina stella-petraea is a mediterranean species found mainly on calcareous rocks in
the mediterranean belt (Nimis 2016). It differs quite well from the other saxicolous Squamarina
because of its rosulate white thallus, areolate in the middle and lobed at the margin. It was
previously known for northern Italy only in one site in Piemonte (Nimis 2016) and one in
Liguria (Valcuvia Passadore et al. 2000). The two new sites reported here, which extend to
Lombardia the Italian range of the species, are located on two mountainsides of Monte Vallassa
with thermo-xeric character. Here, S. stella-petraea was found together with Squamarina
cartilaginea (With.) P.James, Romjularia lurida (Ach.) Timdal and Gyalolechia fulgida (Nyl.)
Søchting, Frödén and Arup in more or less sheltered concavities of sandstone outcrops. It was
found with well-developed rosulate thalli but also coalesced with S. cartilaginea.
G. Gheza
Tornabea scutellifera (With.) J.R. Laundon (Physciaceae)
+ TOS: Marina di Castagneto Carducci (Livorno), on Juniperus oxycedrus subs. macrocarpa
(Sm.) Neilr. (UTM WGS 84: 32T 624591.4785396), 6 m, 10 July 2017, L. Di Nuzzo, E. Bianchi,
R. Benesperi; Marina di Castagneto Carducci (Livorno), on J oxycedrus subsp. macrocarpa
(UTM WGS 84: 32T 624680.4784765), 8 m, 24 November 2017, L. Di Nuzzo, E. Bianchi, R.
Benesperi. – Species confirmed for the flora of Toscana.
Tornabea scutellifera is a fruticose epiphytic macrolichen strictly associated with semiarid
and warm situations with frequent periods of high air humidity (Nimis and Tretiach 1997). It is
included in the Italian red list of epiphytic lichens under the “Least Concern” category
(Nascimbene et al. 2013). There are not recent records in literature for Tuscany (Micheli 1729;
Savi 1825; Baglietto 1871; Saccardo 1894).
L. Di Nuzzo, E. Bianchi, R. Benesperi
Waynea giraltiae van den Boom (Ramalinaceae)
+ SIC: Monte Egitto, Bronte (Catania), western slope of the Etna, in an ancient Quercus
congesta forest, on bark (UTM WGS84: 33S 493690.4179961), 1550 m, 6 October 2017, leg. D.
Cataldo, det. W. v. Brackel (Herb. Brackel 7197). – New species for the flora of Italy (Sicilia).
Waynea giraltiae recently was described from Portugal; it was known until now only from
the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain), growing in the lowland on the bark of Quercus
rotundifolia Lam. (van den Boom 2010). The species is characterized by a squamulose to
granulose thallus with thick-walled, hyaline, septate hairs, a well-defined upper cortex,
marginate, greyish to blackish apothecia, asci Bacidia-type and hyaline, fusiform, (1–)3-septate
ascospores, 12–18 × 2–2.5 µm. Sterile specimens may be mistaken for Agonimia opuntiella
(Buschardt & Poelt) Vězda, but this species lacks the thick hyaline upper cortex, the hairs are
composed of several hyphae and the upper surface is papillate. Sterile Physconia servitii (Nádv.)
Poelt has a similar appearance, but also in this species the hairs are composed of several strands
of hyphae and the thallus is whitish-grey instead of greenish.
D. Cataldo, W. V. Brackel
Acknowledgements
Daniela Cataldo and Wolfgang von Brackel wish to thank Stefan Ekman (Uppsala/Sweden) and
Pieter van den Boom (Arafura/The Netherlands) for hints on the identification.
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