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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Lumbsch H. T. (98-03-19); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Elixia. Elixiaceae Lumbsch (1997); Agyriineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Lumbsch H.T., Journ. Hattori Bot. Lab. 83: 1-73 [$$$] (1997).

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

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

Reproduction Strategy: With sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, lingulate or linear, soon sessile. Margin: Distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells black or brown. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: Brown.

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

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid, 6-8 µm long, 3-4.5 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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