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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01: 00-06-12); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 3. Dacampia. Dacampiaceae Körb. (1855); Dothideales.

Taxonomic Literature: Crivelli P.G., Ueber die heterogene Ascomycetengattung Pleospora Rabh.; Vorschlag für eine Aufteilung. Zürich: 1-215 [192-196] (1983); Eriksson O.E., Opera Bot. 60: 1-209 [53-54] (1981); Hawksworth D.L., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 43: 497-519 (1986); Henssen A., Cryptog. Bot. 5: 149-158 (1995); Martínez Moreno M.I., Ruzia 15: 1-200 [168](1999); Thomson J. W., Bryologist 98: 50-51 (1995).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden and Norway, and United States and Canada (continental).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized or lichenicolous; terricolous or bryophytic; substrate calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent or present; chlorococcal. Secondary photobiont absent or present.

Thallus: Indistinct or crustose, not subdivided parts, squamulose, placodioid, rimose, or areolate (primarily areolate). Upper Surface: Grey, white, or brownish yellow; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate or cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.

Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative; not different with or without KOH pre-treatment (euamyloid).

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 or directly at the thallus margin, not emerging, becoming adnate to soon sessile, stromatic. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Present. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: Brown, white, or brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence bitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid or fusiform, 19.5-40 µm long, 7-14 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa present; transversally septate or both transversally and longitudinally, 3-5-transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, dark brown or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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