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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: 2. Catinaria. Catinariaceae Hafellner (1984); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [81], Wellington (1985); Kilias H., Hoppea 37: 107-128 (1978); Poelt J. & Vezda A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 16: 1-390 [123-125] (1981).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Sonoran Desert, Italy, Sweden and Norway, United States and Canada (continental), Thailand, and Bolivia.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Dictyochloropsis (A. Beck 22-05-97); genus incertae sedis; Dictyochloropsis-group, Trebouxiophyceae, Eukariota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, granular. Upper Surface: Grey, olive, or white; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate or isidiate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate; not 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 to prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells black, brown, or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

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

Ascospores: c. 8 to 12-16 per ascus, ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, 9-18 µm long, 4-8 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 1-transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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