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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Döring H. (95-06-02, 00-02-21), Koch A. (96-03-01), and Triebel D. (00-11-6); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Knightiella. Synonyms: Icmadophila splachnirima (Hook. f. & Taylor) D. j. Galloway; Icmadophilaceae Triebel (1993); Leotiales.

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: Galloway (2000) synonymized Knightiella with Icmadophila. Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [202
203], Wellington (1985); Galloway D. J., Lichenologist 32: 294-297 (2000); Galloway D.J. & Elix J.A., New Zealand
J. Bot. 18: 481-486 (1980); Rambold G., Triebel D. & Hertel H.,
Biblioth. Lichenol. 53: 217-240 (1993).

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

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, squamulose or placodioid. Upper Surface: Grey, green, white, brownish yellow, or pink (rosé); special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate or 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 to substipitate. Margin: Distinct to prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells hyaline or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid or amyloid, with amyloid cap; dehiscence unitunicate.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 12-18 µm long, 3-5 µm wide, obtuse; 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; formed all accross the thallus surface.

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

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