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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Zedda L.; not revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 12. Ephebe. Lichinaceae Nyl. (1854); Lichinales.

Taxonomic Literature: Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest N.S. - Numero
Special 7: 1-893 [362] (1985); Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand
Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [167], Wellington (1985); Gilbert O.L. in:
Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and
Ireland, London (1992); Henssen A., Symb. Bot. Upsal. 18: 1-123 [37-
57] (1963); Nash III T.H. (ed.), Lichen Biology: 227 (1996); Poelt J., Bestimmungsschlüssel Europäischer
Flechten: 1-757 [287-288] (1969).

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

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; cyanobacterial. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Stigonema (A. Beck 19-05-97); Stigonemataceae; Stigonematales, Cyanobacteria, Prokaryota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose or fruticose, not subdivided parts, filamentose or placodioid. Upper Surface: Black, brown, or olive; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by holdfasts; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, directly at the tip of the thallus parts, soon sessile. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present.

Asci: Tholus not thickened, amyloid, entirely amyloid throughout; dehiscence prototunicate.

Ascospores: c. 8 to 12-16 per ascus, globose, ellipsoid, or reniform, 4-20 µm long, 3-7 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; formed all accross the thallus surface or along the thallus periphery.

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