Enterodictyon Müll. Arg. (1892)

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: 2. Enterodictyon. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Arthoniales.

Type Information: Type: Enterodictyon indicum Müll. Arg.

Taxonomic Literature: Müller J., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 29: 217-231 (1892).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing or persistent. Upper Surface: Grey or white; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; not rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; not tomentose.

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, not emerging, stromatic. Margin: Indistinct. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells black or brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Ascospores: 1–2 to c. 4 per ascus, ellipsoid, oblong, or oblong-obtuse, 125-170 µm long, 50-60 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; both transversally and longitudinally; wall not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)