Lasiosphaeriopsis D. Hawksw. & Sivan. (1980)
Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01; 00-06-12); revised; to be published after submission.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 3. Lasiosphaeriopsis. Nitschkiaceae (Fitzp.) Nannf. (1932); Sordariales.
Type Information: Type: Lasiosphaeriopsis salisburyi D. Hawksw. & Sivan.
Taxonomic Literature: Alstrup V., Christensen S.N., Hansen E.S. & Svane S., Fradskaparrit 40: 61-121 [92] (1994); Alstrup V. & Hawksworth D.L., Meddel. Grønland, Biosci. 31: 1-90 [41-43] (1990); Eriksson O.E. & Santesson R., Mycotaxon 25: 569-580 (1986); Hawksworth D.L., Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 74: 363-386 (1980); Keissler K. von, Rabenh. Kryptog.-Fl. 8: 1-712 [320-323] (1930); Martínez Moreno M.I., Ruzia 15: 1-200 [ 166-168] (1999); Triebel D., Biblioth. Lichenol. 35: 1-278 [141, 147-149] (1989).
Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Great Britain, and Sweden and Norway.
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; terricolous; substrate non-calciferous.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Indistinct.
Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative; not different with or without KOH pre-treatment (euamyloid).
Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Perithecioid, orbicular, not emerging, becoming adnate to soon sessile, stromatic. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Present. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Absent. Hypothecium: Black or brown.
Asci: Tholus not thickened or thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence unitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.
Ascospores: 1–2 to c. 4 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid, ellipsoid, fusiform, or oblong-obtuse, 18-53 µm long, 8-13 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa present; transversally septate, 1-9-transversally septate; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.
Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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