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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. 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. Globonectria. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis) (Bionectriaceae); Hypocreales.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; corticolous (substrate not indicated in the original description).

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Perithecioid, orbicular, not emerging, becoming adnate. Wall: Not carbonized, not fused. Margin: Distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Yellow or orange. Periphyses: Present. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Absent, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Yellow or orange.

Asci: Tholus not thickened, not amyloid; ocular chamber indistinct; dehiscence unitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, globose, 6-7.5 µm long, obtuse; septa absent; wall hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall ornamented.

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