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Bacidiopsora Kalb (1988)

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: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Bacidiopsora. Biatoraceae A. Massal. ex Stiz. (1862); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Bacidiopsora squamulosa (Nyl.) Kalb.

Taxonomic Literature: Kalb K., Lichenes Neotropici. Fasc. X (1988); Kalb K. & Elix J.A. in Knoph J.-G., Schrüfer K. & Sipman H.J.M., Biblioth. Lichenol. 57: 265-296 [280] (1995).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Thailand.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, squamulose or granular. Upper Surface: Special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate or 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, soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed.

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

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, filiform, 50-70 µm long, 3-5 µm wide, aciculate; septa present; transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Conidia: Bacilliform.

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

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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