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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Scholz P. (06-06-12, 06-08-07) and Triebel D. (98-01-01; 02-06-22); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 5. Buelliella. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Dothideales.

Taxonomic Literature: Aptroot A., Diederich P., Sérusiaux E. & Sipman H.J.M.,
Biblioth. Lichenol. 64: 1-220 [36-37] (1997); Etayo J., Biblioth.
Lichenol. 84:1-154 [33-34] (2002); Hafellner J., Beih. Nova Hedwigia
62: 1-248 [153-159] (1979); Hafellner J., Herzogia 7: 163-180 (1986);
Suija A. & Alstrup V., Lichenologist 36(3&4): 203-206 (2004).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Great Britain, New Guinea, Sonoran Desert, and United States and Canada (continental).

Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative; not different with or without KOH pre-treatment (euamyloid).

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid or perithecioid, orbicular, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Distinct to prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black, violet, green, brownish yellow, or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells black, bluish red (= reddish blue, incl. violet, purple), green, brownish yellow, or brown. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid or hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

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

Ascospores: c. 4 to c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, broadly ellipsoid, or ovoid, 9-19 µm long, 3.5-11.5 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 1-3-transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, pale brown, or dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented or ornamented.

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