Fuscopannaria P. M. Jørg. (1994)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Scholz P. (02-05-14); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 40. Fuscopannaria. Pannariaceae Tuck. (1872); Peltigerineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Fuscopannaria leucosticta (Tuck. in Darl.) P.M. Jørg.

Taxonomic Literature: Jørgensen P.M., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 76: 197-206 (1994).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Sonoran Desert.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous or corticolous; substrate non-calciferous or calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; cyanobacterial. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Nostoc; Nostocaceae; Nostocales, Cyanobacteria, Prokaryota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, squamulose, granular, or areolate (primarily areolate). Thallus Outline: Persistent. Upper Surface: Brown, olive, or brownish yellow; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate or 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 to substipitate. Margin: Indistinct or prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells black, green, or brown. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with amyloid tube; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 10-27 µm long, 5-11 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa absent; wall not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial.

Conidia: Bacilliform; aseptate; cell wall hyaline.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected or present, of the following substance class(es): ß-orcinol depsides, (higher) aliphatic acids, and (tri-)terpenoids.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)