Coccocarpia Pers. (1826)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Scholz P. (02-05-14); not revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 21. Coccocarpia. Coccocarpiaceae (Mont. ex K. Müller) Henssen (1986); Peltigerineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Coccocarpia erythroxyli (Spreng.) Swinsc. & Krog.

Taxonomic Literature: Arvidsson L., Opera Bot. 67: 1-96 (1983); Arvidsson L. & Galloway

D.J., Bot. Notiser 132: 113-120 (1979); Arvidsson L. & Nash
T.H. III in Nash T.H. III et al. (eds) Lichen Flora of the Greater
Sonoran Desert Region vol. 1, 159-162, Tempe (2002); Galloway D.J.,
Flora of New
Zealand Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [126-129], Wellington
(1985); Keuck
G., Biblioth. Lichenol. 6: 1-175 (1977); Poelt J.
& Vezda A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 16: 1-390 [140-141] (1981);
Santesson R., Symb. Bot. Upsal. 12: 1-590 [413-422] (1952); Swinscow
T.D.V. & Krog H., Norweg. J. Bot. 23: 251-259 (1976).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Bolivia, Guianas, New Guinea, New Zealand, Sonoran Desert, Thailand, United States and Canada (continental), and Republic of South Africa.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous, corticolous, or epiphyllous; substrate non-calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; cyanobacterial. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Scytonema (A. Beck 22-05-97); Scytonemataceae; Nostocales, Cyanobacteria, Prokaryota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Foliose, not subdivided parts, lobed. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Black, grey, yellow, brown, or grey-yellow; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate or isidiate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate or lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by holdfasts; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; not rhizinate or rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; not tomentose.

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 (sometimes with white hairs); external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s positive, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched to distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with amyloid tube; dehiscence lecanoralean; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, globose or ellipsoid, 9-12 µm long, 3-5 µm wide, obtuse; 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; pycnidial; immersed or sessile, formed all accross the thallus surface or along the thallus periphery.

Conidia: Bacilliform.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected or occasionally present, of the following substance class(es): (anthra-)quinones or xanthones.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)