Diederimyces Etayo (1995)
Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01); revised; to be published after submission.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Diederimyces. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Dothideales.
Type Information: Type: Diederimyces fuscideae Etayo.
Taxonomic Literature: Etayo J., Nova Hedwigia 61: 189-197 (1995).
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; corticolous; substrate non-calciferous.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Indistinct.
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: Irregular, soon sessile, stromatic. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Brown. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Absent. Hypothecium: Brown.
Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence bitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, filiform, 20-27 µm long, 3-4 µm wide, aciculate; septa present; transversally septate, 1-1-transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; sessile.
Conidia: Globose.
Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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