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Bapalmuia Sérus. (1993)

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: 4. Bapalmuia. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); family of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Bapalmuia palmularis (Müll. Arg.) Sérus.

Taxonomic Literature: Sérusiaux E., Nord. J. Botany 13: 447-461 (1993).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Guianas and New Guinea.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; epiphyllous.

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

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, leprose, granular, or rimose. Upper Surface: Green, grey, or white; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules or with 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 to distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Brown, white, or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Brown.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, entirely amyloid throughout; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, allantoid, cylindrical, or filiform, 40-510 µm long, 2-3.5 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 12-110-transversally septate, formed by the proper spore wall; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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

Conidia: Bifusiform.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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