A pruinose Mediterranean Placynthium species with well-developed marginal lobes and usually 3-septate spores in black apothecia. In the past, the name used to be erroneously applied to certain populations of P. caesium in Scandinavia but also elsewhere (Jørgensen 2005). However, it is distinguished by a crustose thallus with no marginal lobes. In the Czech Republic, P. garovaglii is only known from the Český kras (the Bohemian karst), where it was found only recently (Svoboda 2007). The only record in the Czech catalogue refers to the suspicious name Lepraria caesia whose type specimen does not contain a lichen but inorganic calcareous incrustations (Jørgensen 2005). Similar to other cyanolichens, P. garovaglii grows on calcareous rocks at places with frequent or lasting water seepage.
Literature: Jørgensen P.M. (2005): Placynthium garovaglioi not present in Scandinavia. – Graphis Scripta 17: 3–5. Svoboda D. (2007): Lichens of the central part of the Bohemian Karst. – Novitates Botanicae Universitatis Carolinae 18: 15–52.
taxonomic classification:Ascomycota → Lecanoromycetes → Peltigerales → Placynthiaceae → Placynthium
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