Corticiruptor Wedin & Hafellner (1998)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Corticiruptor. Micareaceae Hafellner (1984); Cladoniineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Corticiruptor abeloniae (P.M. Jørg.) Wedin & Hafellner (1998).

Taxonomic Literature: Jørgensen P.M., Nova Hedwigia 18: 331-340 (1970) ["1969"] - sub Arthonia abeloniae; Wedin M. & Hafellner J., Lichenologist 30: 59-91 [88-90] (1998).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Great Britain and Sweden and Norway.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; substrate non-calciferous or calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Indistinct. Upper Surface: Special structures absent.

Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, not emerging. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells hyaline. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with amyloid tube; ocular chamber indistinct; dehiscence lecanoralean; exoascus euamyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or oblong, 10-14 µm long, 3-4.5 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent or present; transversally septate, 1-2-transversally septate, formed by the proper spore wall; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)