Badimiella Malcolm & Vezda (1994)
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: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Badimiella. Ectolechiaceae (Vain.) Zahlbr. (1905); family of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Lecanorales.
Type Information: Type: Badimiella serusiauxii Malcolm & Ve zda.
Taxonomic Literature: Malcolm W.M. & Vezda A., Nova Hedwigia 59: 517-523 (1994).
Biogeography: Checklist records: New Zealand.
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; epiphyllous.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts. Upper Surface: Green or grey; 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, forming all across the thallus surface, soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct to distinct. Exciple: White. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.
Asci: Dehiscence lecanoralean.
Ascospores: c. 4 to c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 18-20 µm long, 4.5-5 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate or both transversally and longitudinally, 3-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; campylidial; sessile, formed all accross the thallus surface.
Conidiogeneous Cells: Apical. Conidia: Bacilliform.
Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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