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Conotremopsis Vezda (1977)

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: 1. Conotremopsis. Stictidaceae Fr. (1849); Ostropales.

Type Information: Type: Conotremopsis weberiana Ve zda.

Taxonomic Literature: Kantvilas G., Lichenologist 28: 229-337 (1996); Vezda A., Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 12: 313-316 (1977).

Biogeography: Checklist records: New Zealand.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous.

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

Thallus: Crustose, leprose or granular. Upper Surface: Green, grey, orange, or white; 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 or perithecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, soon sessile. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence unitunicate.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, filiform, 400-420 µm long, 2-2.5 µm wide; septa present; transversally septate, 80-100-transversally septate; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, 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)


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