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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: accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Aspiciliopsis. Agyriaceae Corda (1838); Agyriineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Choisy M., Bull. Soc. Bot. Françe 76: 521-527 (1929); Lumbsch H.T., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 83: 1-73 (1997); Lamb, I.M., Lilloa 13: 151-288 (1947).

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Secondary photobiont present.

Thallus: Crustose, rimose or placodioid. Upper Surface: Brownish yellow or white; special structures present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. 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, forming all across the thallus surface, not emerging. Margin: Indistinct to distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: White or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brownish yellow. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

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

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 22.5-26 µm long, 14-16 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): ß-orcinol depsidones.

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