Amylora Rambold (1994)
Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set not revised; to be published after submission.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Amylora. Rimulariaceae Hafellner (1984); Cladoniineae; Lecanorales.
Type Information: Type: Amylora cervinocuprea (Arnold) Rambold.
Taxonomic Literature: Rambold G., Bull. Soc. Linn. Prov. 45: 343-348 (1994).
Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria.
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; substrate non-calciferous.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Crustose, areolate (primarily areolate). Upper Surface: Brown; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.
Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution positive.
Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, not emerging, becoming adnate. Margin: Indistinct to distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Grey or white. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown, green, grey, hyaline, or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed to distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.
Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with amyloid cap or tube and flanks; dehiscence lecanoralean.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, (8)-9.4-12.7-(16) µm long, (4.5)-4.8-6.5-(7.5) µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution positive, wall not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; immersed, formed all accross the thallus surface.
Conidiogeneous Cells: Apical. Conidia: Bacilliform.
Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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