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Clypeopyrenis Aptroot (1991)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Aptroot A. (95-02-10); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Clypeopyrenis. Pyrenulaceae Rabenh. (1870); Pyrenulales.

Type Information: Type: Clypeopyrenis microsperma (Müll. Arg.) Aptroot.

Taxonomic Literature: Aptroot A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 44: 1-178 (1991).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous.

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

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts. Upper Surface: Brown, green, or olive; 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: Perithecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, becoming adnate to soon sessile, stromatic. Wall: With a carbonized black clypeus around the ostiole, not fused. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; ocular chamber indistinct; dehiscence bitunicate.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 6-8 µm long, 2-2.5 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 1-transversally septate, formed by the endospore wall layer; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, laterally constricted where the septum meets the spore wall, dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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