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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: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Frutidella. Biatoraceae A. Massal. ex Stiz. (1862); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Kalb K., Hoppea 55: 581-586 (1994); §§TEST§§ Purvis O.W. & James P.W. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, London [1992] (1992); Sipman, H.J.M, Elix J.A. & Streimann H., Australasian Lichnology 43: 10-11 (1998).

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

Thallus: Crustose, granular or subfruticose. Upper Surface: Special structures present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; 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, soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: White or olive. Epithecium: Apical cells olive. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with non-amyloid narrow axial body and amyloid convergent flanks towards apex; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 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; pycnidial; immersed, formed all accross the thallus surface.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, ß-orcinol depsides, and xanthones.

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