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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Scholz P. (02-05-15); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 8. Leprocaulon. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); of unknown placement (incertae sedis).

Taxonomic Literature: Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest N.S. - Numero
Special 7: 1-893 [492] (1985); Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand

Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [246-247], Wellington (1985); Lamb I.M.
& Ward A., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 38: 499-533 (1974); Poelt J.,
Bestimmungsschlüssel Europäischer Flechten: 1-757 [373]
(1969); Purvis O.W. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of
Great Britain and Ireland, London (1992); Ryan B.D. in: Nash T.H. III
et al. (eds) Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region vol.
1, 262-264, Tempe (2002).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, New Zealand, Sonoran Desert, Sweden and Norway, Thailand, United States and Canada (continental), and Republic of South Africa.

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

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Trebouxia; Trebouxiaceae; Trebouxiales, Trebouxiophyceae, Eukariota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose or fruticose, leprose, squamulose, subfruticose, or granular. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Grey, white, or brownish yellow; special structures present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; sorediate; not cephalodiate; lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface or attached by holdfasts; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; not rhizinate or rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; not tomentose.

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

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