Cladonia cryptochlorophaea Asahina

Farkas, Edit, Lőkös, László & Veres, Katalin, 2023, Analysis of lichen secondary metabolites and morphometrics in the Cladonia chlorophaea species group (Cladoniaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) in Hungary, Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (5), pp. 61-82 : 70-71

Cladonia cryptochlorophaea Asahina

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The Hungarian specimens contain fumarprotocetraric, cryptochlorophaeic, quesitic (?), norrangiformic and thamnolic acids.

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Their colour is dark greenish grey, weakly black melanotic at base. The scyphi are hardly dentate at margin, the basis of the stalk is usually blackening ( Stenroos et al. 2011, 2016; Ahti et al. 2013). The podetia are medium tall (1.7-15.1 mm) with relatively wide (1-6.9 mm) and short(0.7-5.6 mm) cup.The soredia are granulose, their diameter is medium to large (13-138 µm).

C. cryptochlorophaea differs from C. asahinae in the width of cup and podetium height related to cup width, from C. chlorophaea in the height of the cup and podetium height, from C. merochlorophaea in podetium height, size of soredia and width of stalk and from C. novochlorophaea in the height of the cup and the ratio of the corticated part of the podetium to the height of the whole podetium. None of the measured characters were significantly different between C. cryptochlorophaea and C. grayi ( Table 1 ).

It is a rare species, collected on calcareous and siliceous soil, in deciduous, more often in coniferous forest, at the edge of the forests or along paths between 200 and 650 m a.s.l. in the Őrség, the Vendvidék, the Little Hungarian Plain, the Bakony, the Bükk and the Zemplén Mts, more or less covering the country’s hilly regions.

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FIG. 12. — Cladonia cryptochlorophaea Asahina: A, habit (BP[BP 48938]); B, spots of lichen secondary metabolites on chromatographic plates; C, distribution in Hungary. Abbreviations: c, cryptochlorophaeic acid; nR, norrangiformic acid; F, fumarprotocetraric acid; Z, zeorin; N, norstictic acid. Scale bar: A, 2 mm.