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Gyalecta jenensis
Rock Dimple Lichen
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0218 0825 (2018-02-12)Copyright © 2018 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Feb 10, 2018
latitude 46.36023 longitude 13.59631
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location
Bovec basin, at the mouth of Bavščica valley; near the destroyed water mill on Šumnik stream; East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.:? - syn.: Gyalecta cupularis (Hedw.) Schaer., Lecidea cupularis (Hedw.) Ach., Cappellettia cupularis (Hedw.) Tomas. & Cif. - Habitat: narrow canyon; stony, vertical, calcareous, manmade supporting wall; north aspect; very humid place with no sun most of the year; in total shade; about 1.5 m above the mountain stream; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 470 m 1.530 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: calcareous rocks of a vertical wall of a bridge over a mountain stream. Comments: Gyalecta jenensis is a quite common but nice small jewel among crustose, saxicolous (growing on rocks) lichens. It has waxy-looking, from pale or vividly yellow to deep orange apothecia with whitish, usually cracked to segments margins. The inconspicuous thallus is grayish with sometimes pink tint but often covered by dark layer of cyanobacteria, which makes its appearance black (Ref.:1). It is often found together with Trentepohlia aurea, an orange filamentous algae capable to live outside water (see orange tufts on pictures 11b and 12b). The photobiont of Gyalecta jenensis is also Trentepohlia algae. This species was photographed at this place almost exactly ten years ago. Ref.: (1) I.M. Brodo, S.D. Sharnoff, S.Sharnoff, Lichens of North America, Yale Uni. Press (2001), p 329. (2) V. Wirth, R. Duell, Farbatlas Flechten und Moose, Ulmer, (2000), p 410. (3) C.W.Smith, et all, The lichens of Great Britain and Ireland,The British Lichen Society (2009), p 255. (4) F.S. Dobson, Lichens, The Richmonds Publishing Ca.LTD (2005), p 183. (5) http://www.aphotoflora.com/algae_trentepohlia_aurea_orange.html (Trentepohlia aurea) (accessed Feb. 12. 2018)camera Nikon D700 / Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_1111/2018_DSC0872 photo category: Fungi - lichen
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Rock Dimple Lichen, Dimple Lichen (photographer)
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