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Loflammia Vezda (1986)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Lücking R. (95-08-01, 96-08-01); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 3. Loflammia. Ectolechiaceae (Vain.) Zahlbr. (1905); family of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Loflammia flammea (Müll. Arg.) Ve zda.

Taxonomic Literature: Sérusiaux E., Lichenologist 18: 1-35 (1986); Vezda A., Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 21: 199-219 (1986).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Guianas.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; epiphyllous.

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

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, areolate (primarily areolate). Upper Surface: Black; special structures absent. 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. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells hyaline or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: Brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with amyloid tube; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: 1–2 to c. 8 per ascus, oblong, oblong-obtuse, or ovoid, 24-60 µm long, 6-20 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate or both transversally and longitudinally, 3-10-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; campylidial; sessile.

Conidia: Globose or fusiform.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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