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Naetrocymbe punctiformis (Pers.) R.C. Harris   (redirected from: Arthopyrenia punctiformis (Pers.) A. Massal.)
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Family: Naetrocymbaceae
[Arthonia cembrina Anzi, moreArthopyrenia atomaria Müll.Arg., Arthopyrenia cembrina (Anzi) Grummann, Arthopyrenia epidermidis A. Massal., Arthopyrenia epidermidis f. epidermidis A. Massal., Arthopyrenia epidermidis f. maculans Nyl., Arthopyrenia epidermidis var. atomaria , Arthopyrenia epidermidis var. epidermidis A. Massal., Arthopyrenia laburni Leight. ex Arnold, Arthopyrenia padi Rabenh., Arthopyrenia punctiformis (Pers.) A. Massal., Arthopyrenia punctiformis f. punctiformis A. Massal., Arthopyrenia punctiformis var. punctiformis A. Massal., Arthopyrenia pyrenastrella (Nyl.) Norman, Arthopyrenia pyrenastrella var. maculans (Nyl.) Keissl., Arthopyrenia pyrenastrella var. pyrenastrella (Nyl.) Norman, Didymella punctiformis (A. Massal.) Vain., Didymella punctiformis f. acerina (Hepp) Vain., Didymella punctiformis f. deminutula (Nyl.) Szatala, Didymella punctiformis f. punctiformis (Massee) Vain., Didymella punctiformis f. subnigricans (Arnold) Szatala, Didymella punctiformis var. contraria Erichsen, Didymella punctiformis var. punctiformis (Massee) Vain., Didymella pyrenastrella (Nyl.) Vain., Didymella pyrenastrella var. maculans (Nyl.) Vain., Didymella pyrenastrella var. punctuosa (Vain.) Vain., Didymella pyrenastrella var. pyrenastrella (Nyl.) Vain., Jattaeolichen pyrenastrellum (Nyl.) Tomas. & Cif., Lecideopsis cembrina (Anzi) Rehm, Leiophloea punctiformis (Schrank) Gray, Leptorhaphis pyrenastrella (Nyl.) Blomb. & Forssell, Lichen punctiformis Schrank, Mycarthopyrenia pyrenastrella (Nyl.) Keissl., Pyrenula epidermidis (A. Massal.) Trevis., Pyrenula punctiformis (Schrank) Trevis., Pyrenula punctiformis f. acerina Hepp, Pyrenula punctiformis f. pinicola Hepp, Pyrenula punctiformis f. punctiformis (Schrank) Trevis., Pyrenula punctiformis var. punctiformis (Schrank) Trevis., Pyrenula punctiformis var. vera Nägeli ex Hepp, Spermatodium epidermidis (A. Massal.) Trevis., Verrucaria epidermidis subsp. pyrenastrella (Nyl.) Cromb., Verrucaria epidermidis var. pyrenastrella Nyl., Verrucaria laburni (Leight. ex Arnold) Leight., Verrucaria punctiformis Pers., Verrucaria punctiformis var. deminutula Nyl., Verrucaria punctiformis var. punctiformis (Schrank) Pers., Verrucaria punctiformis var. straminea Eschw., Verrucaria pyrenastrella (Nyl.) Nyl.]
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Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2002. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1.
Thallus: absent or continuous, immersed in the substrate upper surface: gray, smooth; photobiont: absent Perithecia: hemispherical, black, superficial on the thallus or bark, 0.15-0.4 mm diam ascomatal wall: black, absent below the hamathecium hamathecium: unbranched pseudoparaphyses, not anastomosing; filaments: c. 2 µm wide, cells often swollen (moniliform), not inspersed with oil droplets, but becoming slimy or oily asci: pyriform, c. 45-55 x 15-25 µm, with 8, irregularly arranged ascospores ascospores: hyaline, clavate, 1-septate with a supramedian euseptum, 18-22 x 5-6 µm; walls: not ornamented, with a 1-2 µm thick gelatinous sheath Spot tests: all negative, UV negative Secondary metabolites: none detected. Substrate and ecology: on bark of various woody plants, including Acer, Jatropha, Quercus, Punica and Rhus World distribution: northern temperate or possibly cosmopolitan Sonoran distribution: one of the most common corticolous pyrenocarps in the region, collected in California (including the Channel Islands), Arizona, Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sinaloa.
Thompson, J., 1997. American Arctic Lichens: The Microlichens.
Thallus not lichenized, bark discolored around the ascocarps.

Ascocarps dark brown or black, 0.1-0.25 mm broad, at first within bark, soon uncovered; excipular wall lacking below, dark above; hyphae between the asci branched and nearly parenchymatous, sometimes appearing moniliform in KOH; spores 8, irregularly arranged, hyaline, 1-septate, elongate-ellipsoid with thin, gelatinous sheath, 15-20 x 4.5-6/xm.

This species is found on a variety of barks, including Acer, Alnus, Betula, and Quercus. It is listed in Zahlbruckner’s Catalogus as cosmopolitan.

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