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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Lumbsch H. T. (98-03-19); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Anzina. Agyriaceae Corda (1838); Agyriineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest N.S. - Numero Special 7: 1-893 [160] (1985); Lumbsch H.T., Kashiwadani H. & Streimann H., Pl. Syst. Evol. 185: 285-292 (1993); Lumbsch H.T., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 83: 1-73 (1997); Scheidegger C., Nova Hedwigia 41: 191-211 (1985).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Italy, and Sweden and Norway.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous, bryophytic, lignicolous, or corticolous.

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

Thallus: Indistinct or crustose, not subdivided parts, granular or rimose. Upper Surface: Grey or white; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular or irregular, soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct to prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells hyaline. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed to distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, entirely amyloid throughout; dehiscence lecanoralean; exoascus euamyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 4 to c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, (11)-13-16-(21) µm long, (4.5)-6.8-(7.5) µm wide, obtuse; septa absent or present; transversally septate, 1-3-transversally septate; wall thin or thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides.

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