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Anzia Stizenb. (1861)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): 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: 34. Anzia. Anziaceae Sato (1939); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.

Taxonomic Literature: Bratt G.C., Blackman A.J., Cashin J.A., Lichenologist 8: 69-77
(1976); Elix J.A., Bryologist 96: 359-383 (1993); Galloway D.J., New
Zeal. J. Bot. 16: 261-270 (1978); Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand
Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [7-8], Wellington (1985); Henssen A. &
Dobelmann A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 25: 103-108 (1987); Yoshimura A.,
Biblioth. Lichenol. 25: 185-195 (1987); Yoshimura I. in: Nash T.H. III et al. (eds), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region vol. 1: 101-102, Tempe (2002); Yoshimura I. & Elix J.A., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 74: 287-298 (1993); Yoshimura A., in: Daniels F.J.A., Schulz M. & Peine J. (eds): Flechten Follmann: 377-387, Cologne (1995); Yoshimura I., Singh K.P. & Elix J.A., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 82: 343-352 (1997); Yoshimura I., Sipman H.J.M., Aptroot A. in: Farkas E.+., Lücking R. & Wirth V. (eds), Biblioth.
Lichenol. 58: 439-469 (1995).

Biogeography: Checklist records: New Zealand, Sonoran Desert, and United States and Canada (continental).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; 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, not subdivided parts, lobed. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Green or yellow; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate or pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate or isidiate; not sorediate or sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate or lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by holdfasts; special structures present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; not rhizinate or rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; 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 to substipitate. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Grey or white. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Black or white.

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

Ascospores: More than 32 per ascus, filiform, curved, or semilunate, 2.5-12 µm long, 1-3 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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

Conidia: Bacilliform; aseptate.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, orcinol depsidones, ß-orcinol depsides, ß-orcinol depsidones, and (higher) aliphatic acids.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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