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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Poelt J. (95-03-14) and Kasalicky T. (97-11-12); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 12. Fulgensia. Teloschistaceae Zahlbr. (1898); Teloschistineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest N.S. - Numero Special 7: 1-893 [366-367] (1985); Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [169-170], Wellington (1985); Gilbert O.L., Lichenologist 10: 33-45 (1978); Gilbert O.L. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, London (1992); Kärnefelt I., Cryptog. Bot. 147-203 (1989); Poelt J., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 5: 571-607 (1965); Poelt J. & Vezda A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 9: 1-258 [109-114] (1977).

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

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous or bryophytic; substrate calciferous.

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

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, squamulose or placodioid. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing or persistent. Upper Surface: Orange, white, or yellow; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate or lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface or attached by holdfasts?; 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: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct, distinct, or prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White or orange. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells orange. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, entirely amyloid throughout; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, broadly ellipsoid, or clavate, 9-13-(24) µm long, 3.5-7 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa absent or present; transversally septate, 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; immersed or stipitate, formed all accross the thallus surface.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): (anthra-)quinones.

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