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Gemmaspora D. Hawksw. & Halici

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Scholz P. Data set not revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Synonyms: Adelococcus p.pt.; Verrucariales.

Type Information: Type: Gemmaspora lecanorae (Werner) D. Hawksw. & Halici.

Taxonomic Literature: Hawksworth D.L. & Halici M.G., Lichenologist 39: 121-128 (2007).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; substrate calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Indistinct.

Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative; not different with or without KOH pre-treatment (euamyloid).

Reproduction Strategy: With sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Perithecioid, orbicular, not emerging, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Wall: Not carbonized, not fused. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Brown (red-brown to dark brown). Periphyses: Present. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Absent. Hypothecium: White or brown.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence verrucarial; exoascus not amyloid, hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, globose or broadly ellipsoid, 10-12-(14) µm long, (7.5)-8-9.5 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent or present; transversally septate, 0-1-transversally septate; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, not constricted where the septum meets the spore wall, pale brown or dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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