Anaptychia Körb. (1848)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Esslinger T. (99-11-15), Moberg R. (95-11-28), and Scholz P. (02-05-13); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 15. Anaptychia. Physciaceae Zahlbr. (1898); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Anaptychia ciliaris (L.) Körb.

Taxonomic Literature: Culberson W.L., Bryologist 69: 472-487 (1967) ["1966"]; Esslinger
T.L. in: Nash T.H. III et al. (eds), Lichen Flora of the Greater
Sonoran Desert Region vol. 1: 95-97, Tempe (2002); Hafellner J.,
Mayrhofer H., Poelt J., Herzogia 5: 39-79 (1979); Kurokawa S., Beih.
Nova Hedwigia 6: 1-115 (1962); Kurokawa S., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 37:
563-607 (1973); Kurokawa S., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 37: 563-607 (1973);
Poelt J. & Vezda A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 9: 1-258 [13-16] (1977);
Purvis O.W. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great
Britain and Ireland, London (1992); Rambold G., Mayrhofer H. &
Matzer M., Pl. Syst. Evol. 192: 31-40 (1994).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Sonoran Desert, Sweden and Norway, United States and Canada (continental), and Republic of South Africa.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; rarely terricolous, lignicolous, or corticolous; substrate non-calciferous or calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Trebouxia (A. Beck 22-05-97); Trebouxiaceae; Trebouxiales, Trebouxiophyceae, Eukariota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Foliose, crustose, or fruticose, not subdivided parts, subfruticose, lobed. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Grey, brown, or brownish yellow; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate or ciliate; without hairs or hairy; not isidate; not sorediate or sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by holdfasts; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; not rhizinate or rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; not tomentose.

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, soon sessile or substipitate. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Grey or white. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with non-amyloid wide axial body and divergent amyloid flanks towards apex; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 30-45-(54) µm long, 15-24 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 1-transversally septate; wall thin, thickened at the septum, dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented or ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; immersed, sessile, or stipitate, formed all accross the thallus surface.

Conidia: Bacilliform.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): ß-orcinol depsides or (tri-)terpenoids.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)