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

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 4. Leproloma. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); of unknown placement (incertae sedis).

Type Information: Type: Leproloma lanuginosum Nyl. ex Cromb. nom. illeg. (= Leproloma membranaceum (Dicks.) Vain.).

Taxonomic Literature: Laundon J.R., Lichenologist 21: 1-22 (1989); Leuckert C., Kümmerling H. & Wirth V. in: Farkas E.+., Lücking R. & Wirth V. (eds), Biblioth. Lichenol. 58: 245-259 (1995); Laundon J.R. in: Purvis O.W., Coppins B.J., Hawksworth D.L., James P.W. & Moore D.M. (eds), The lichen flora of Great Britain and Ireland: 1-710 [347-349] (1992).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Sonoran Desert, Italy, New Zealand, and United States and Canada (continental).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized or lichenicolous; terricolous or corticolous; substrate non-calciferous or calciferous.

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

Thallus: Crustose, leprose or granular. Upper Surface: Green, grey, brownish yellow, or white; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): ß-orcinol depsides, (higher) aliphatic acids, and dibenzofurans [and usnic acids].

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