Bouvetiella Øvstedal (1986)

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. Bouvetiella. Hymeneliaceae Körb. (1855); Acarosporineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Bouvetiella pallida vstedal.

Taxonomic Literature: Øvstedal D.A., Norsk. Polarinst. Skr. 185: 35-56 (1986).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous or bryophytic.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, granular. Upper Surface: Black or brown; 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, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct to distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells hyaline. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched to distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus not thickened or thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or fusiform, 14-16 µm long, 5-6 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)